Something Has Happened: A Storybook and Guide for Safeguarding and Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe

Something Has Happened: A Storybook and Guide for Safeguarding and Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe
Author: Liz Bates
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000465888

This beautifully illustrated storybook and guide have been created to teach children about safeguarding in its broadest sense: that being safe from harm is the most important right they have, and that the trusted adults around them will always take action to protect, believe and respect them. Covering all of the fundamental aspects of safeguarding, the Protective Behaviours (PB) process, and teaching children about the safety continuum, networks of support and persistence, the invaluable lessons in this resource help children develop their own internal measure of safety and will teach them how to ask for help if they ever feel unsafe. The set includes: Something Has Happened: Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe - An engaging storybook, offering opportunities for discussion throughout, helping children learn about difficult feelings, who they can go to for help and what do to when it feels like nobody is listening A Practical Resource for Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe – A practical resource that includes session plans and activities to accompany the story and fundamental guidance around safeguarding for the adult This is a must-have resource for teachers, support staff and other professionals working with primary and lower-secondary aged children.

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide

Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide
Author: Catherine Lawler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003801900

This guidebook is an essential companion to the Pilgrim’s Bumpy Flight story and is designed to be read by professionals to ensure the effective and safe use of the storybook. Pilgrims Bumpy Flight has been created to help young children aged 5–7 experiencing domestic abuse, to explore the concepts of physical and emotional safety. Safety planning with a child offers a way to help them vocalise their feelings and understand what to do when something does not feel right. The professional guide will help supporting adults facilitate safety planning that is experienced as emphatically curious, safe and where the child’s opinion matters. It provides up-to-date information on domestic abuse, childhood trauma, practice tips and how to complete a safety plan with a young child using the storybook as the key vessel of communication and exploration. Key features include: • Accessible information about domestic abuse and coercive control based on the latest research. • Guidance around direct work and safety planning with young children. • Practical activities building off Pilgrim’s story, including printable material. • Things to consider and ways to use the storybook to facilitate a conversation with a child, as well as page-by-page helpers notes on the narrative. • A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to support adult victims/survivors of domestic abuse. Used alongside the storybook, this professional guide is a crucial tool for the early years sector, education staff and those working in children’s services, including safeguarding officers, family support workers, social workers and children’s IDVAs. Both books should be used in tandem with agency policy, procedure and guidance.

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
Author: Catherine Lawler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1000090094

This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook and accompanying professional guide have been created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. Floss is a happy little puppy who loves going to Doggy Daycare and playing with her best friend, Houdini. The story explores how things change when her Mum’s new friend, Boss, comes into their lives. Floss’s story supports children who have experienced domestic abuse and trauma as they make sense of their feelings, teaching them to seek help and stay safe. The supporting guidebook helps adults to work through the story effectively, putting the professional in a position to have important conversations with children about what to do if something at home does not feel right. This set: Can be used to address the topic of domestic abuse and coercive control with individuals, small groups and whole classes, enabling dialogue around a sensitive issue Offers activities for supporting children, safety planning strategies and guidance for taking on a key adult role Can be used to support the PSHE curriculum, particularly around the topic of healthy relationships This set is a vital tool for teachers, social care staff, therapists and other professionals working to teach young children about domestic abuse and coercive control. It provides an important vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing.

Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight: Helping Young Children Learn About Domestic Abuse Safety Planning

Pilgrim's Bumpy Flight: Helping Young Children Learn About Domestic Abuse Safety Planning
Author: Catherine Lawler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003801277

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A 'Pilgrim’s Bumpy Flight' Storybook and Professional Guide [9781032357997] Pilgrim is a little plane who loves flying through the sky and zooming through big hoops with their friends. At home, however, Pilgrim experiences frightening behaviour from Jumbo, who represents the perpetrating parent, that makes them feel scared and sad. Pilgrim is comforted and guided by Jet, who represents the victim/survivor parent, to think about safety and what to do when frightening things are happening. The trauma a young child may experience from domestic abuse can impact their entire developing system, making them feel worried, frightened, and unsafe. Safety planning is an essential component of direct work with children, offering a way to help them vocalise their feelings and understand what to do when something does not feel right, and this storybook is a key vessel for communication and exploration. The story, which is rhyming and engaging, enables young children to engage in the narrative in a non-threatening way. This book aims to be accessible to all children from all families where safety planning is needed as such the characters in it are non-gendered. This beautifully illustrated storybook is a crucial tool for the early years sector, education staff and those working in children’s services, including safeguarding officers, family support workers, social workers and children’s IDVAs. This book is designed to be used alongside the companion guidebook, Domestic Abuse Safety Planning with Young Children: A Professional Guide. Both books should be used in tandem with agency policy, procedure and guidance.

Something Has Happened: Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe

Something Has Happened: Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe
Author: Liz Bates
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000465756

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the guidebook- Guide for Safeguarding and Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe. Something has happened to Joe. Now he doesn’t feel safe; he feels sick, wants to cry and can’t even concentrate on his computer games. This carefully and sensitively written storybook has been created to enable conversations around safeguarding, teaching children about their right to feel safe, and what to do if, like Joe, they ever need help. With colourful and engaging illustrations, the story offers opportunities for discussion throughout, using Joe as a tool to help children understand their difficult feelings, who they can go to for help, and what they can do when it feels like nobody is listening. This storybook: Teaches children about the right to feel safe, the safety continuum, networks of support and persistence Offers advice that can be used by children in any situation, from disclosing abuse to talking about smaller worries Can be used with both primary and lower-secondary aged pupils as a whole class, in small groups or in one-to-one sessions Designed to be used alongside the professional guidebook, A Practical Resource for Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe, this is an essential tool for teachers, support staff and other professionals who want to teach children that being safe from harm is the most important right they have, and that the trusted adults around them will always take action to believe and protect them.

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Helping Children Learn About Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
Author: Catherine Lawler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1000090620

This book is designed to support professionals with the sensitive and effective use of the storybook, Floss and the Boss, created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. By defining domestic abuse and coercive control and exploring the effects upon children and their education, this guidebook puts the professional in a position to have important conversations with children about what to do if something at home does not feel right. When used with the storybook, it provides a vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing. Key features of this book include: Page-by-page notes, with discussion topics and points for conversation around the Floss and the Boss story Activities for supporting children, safety planning strategies and guidance for taking on a key adult role A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to support adult victims of domestic abuse This is a vital tool for teachers, social care staff, therapists and other professionals working with the Floss and the Boss story to teach young children about domestic abuse and coercive control.

The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide for Churches and Ministries

The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide for Churches and Ministries
Author: Basyle Tchividjian
Publisher: New Growth Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1945270063

Churches are supposed to be a safe haven, but many deal with the tragic reality of child sexual abuse. This guide, supported by a multidisciplinary team of child abuse experts, helps churches and faith communities formulate policies and procedures to protect children and address possible abuse in their ministries.

Life Story Books for Adopted Children

Life Story Books for Adopted Children
Author: Joy Rees
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2009
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1843109530

This concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' improved model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child's sense of security within the adoptive family.

Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5

Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5
Author: Barbara Uecker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646822631

Meet the sugar glider twins, Swoosh and Glide! See how they help one another, always side by side. They live in the hollow of an old river gum, playing with their family and having lots of fun. The twins share their rules to keep them safe online. What are your family rules for fun technology time?Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5 is a fun and engaging way to explore online safety with young children.Teaching children to ask for help is key to keeping them safe.This book helps set the foundation for good online habits early so they can carry this through to school and beyond - be safe, be kind, ask for help and make good choices.