Whose Decision is it anyway?
10am, 28th September 2023, 10am - 1pm
On Zoom
Facilitated by Helen Holly
Free
10am, 28th September 2023, 10am - 1pm
On Zoom
Facilitated by Helen Holly
Free
Do you work in an education setting with young people and adults? How confident are you in applying the legal framework around decision making and involving young people in: decisions connected with their EHC Plan; choosing subjects; deciding to whether or not to take part in school activities; making decisions around ‘what next’? Working appropriately within the Children and Families Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005 is crucial to ensure that young peoples rights are upheld at this critical time of their lives.
Led by our Social Care Consultant Helen Holly, our free 2-hour session will explore decision making in an education setting, the legal framework and influencing factors that can affect decision making.
Learning Outcomes
Following this session, you will be able to:
Following this session, you will be able to:
- The key principles within the legal framework around decision making within educational settings.
- You will consider how the law distinguishes between children, young people and adults, and how to balance the rights of young people to autonomy and choice alongside the rights of parents to make, and be involved in, decisions.
- You will reflect on the many different things that can impact upon decision making, exploring how children and young people can and should be supported to make their own decisions, as well as how to evidence this.
About the Trainer
The programme will be delivered by Helen Holly. Helen Holly is a qualified and experienced trainer and consultant, with experience of training across the police, health, social care, education and charity sectors.
An experienced investigator and interviewer, she worked for over 10 years in Thames Valley Police, specialising as a Detective within Public Protection – which included Child Abuse Investigation, high risk Domestic Abuse, abuse in care homes, so called ‘Honour Based Violence’ and serious sexual offences.
Helen also has extensive experience as an advocate and a Children’s Rights Manager supporting children and young people in care, and children and young people with disabilities. She is a Designated Safeguarding Manager, and also volunteers as a safeguarding governor for a primary school in Herefordshire.
This breadth of experience has led to Helen has designing and delivering training nationally in a wide range of areas, including: safeguarding for adults and children; Domestic Abuse; Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards; Transition from Children’s Services to Adult Social Care and the legislative framework; Investigative Skills; Advanced Interviewing; Achieving Best Evidence and Visually Recorded Interviews; Essential Communication Skills; Advanced Investigation of Financial Abuse; Preparation for Tribunals and giving evidence; Recording and Sharing Information; Minute Taking within Safeguarding; Chairing Safeguarding Meetings.
Helen really enjoys facilitating sessions for both large and small groups, and is able to maintain focus on the key learning outcomes whilst also enabling wider discussion and exploration of the broader aspects of professional development.
Helen is currently completing a part time Masters at Sheffield University in Language and Communication Impairment in Children.
The programme will be delivered by Helen Holly. Helen Holly is a qualified and experienced trainer and consultant, with experience of training across the police, health, social care, education and charity sectors.
An experienced investigator and interviewer, she worked for over 10 years in Thames Valley Police, specialising as a Detective within Public Protection – which included Child Abuse Investigation, high risk Domestic Abuse, abuse in care homes, so called ‘Honour Based Violence’ and serious sexual offences.
Helen also has extensive experience as an advocate and a Children’s Rights Manager supporting children and young people in care, and children and young people with disabilities. She is a Designated Safeguarding Manager, and also volunteers as a safeguarding governor for a primary school in Herefordshire.
This breadth of experience has led to Helen has designing and delivering training nationally in a wide range of areas, including: safeguarding for adults and children; Domestic Abuse; Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards; Transition from Children’s Services to Adult Social Care and the legislative framework; Investigative Skills; Advanced Interviewing; Achieving Best Evidence and Visually Recorded Interviews; Essential Communication Skills; Advanced Investigation of Financial Abuse; Preparation for Tribunals and giving evidence; Recording and Sharing Information; Minute Taking within Safeguarding; Chairing Safeguarding Meetings.
Helen really enjoys facilitating sessions for both large and small groups, and is able to maintain focus on the key learning outcomes whilst also enabling wider discussion and exploration of the broader aspects of professional development.
Helen is currently completing a part time Masters at Sheffield University in Language and Communication Impairment in Children.