Thanks for great training on Monday (I'm not just saying that!!). You made me reflect on my practice and being on the front line every day I realise that I am in need of supervision - I think in the climate we are working in with becoming first responders to many social, emotional and mental health issues it will have to become something that is necessary to prevent 'burn-out'

I found the information about Group Supervision particularly interesting and I can see that this will definitely be a starting point for us (Nursery and Reception staff to begin with).

At first I was a little confused as to how this would work within school and what the session would look like in terms of how staff would view them.

As the day went on I could really see the benefit and understood the structure of the session. That very clear the child being the centre and ending with a plan of action.

I found the role play (although never what we want to do) VERY useful for myself and to understand how the session would work with my staff.

The group session was great to see and I can see of being a real benefit in school and as part of our cluster. We left discussing arranging this as we walked to the carpark.

Thank you for delivering the course yesterday I found it very useful. I would be interested in coming to a follow up course in a couple of months when we have tried to implement it so we could discuss any issues that may have arisen.

I feel in order for it to have optimum effect the sessions need to be 1:1 but initially I am interested in how group sessions could work, not only in relation to students safeguarding but also staff safeguarding.

James was extremely knowledgeable, clear, kind and very positive throughout. As a qualified teacher, it makes me really confident in APSCo for employing consultants like James .

He knows safeguarding like the back of his hand and he genuinely cares about improving companies’ knowledge base and processes and ultimately, he cares greatly about child and vulnerable adult safety.

I would like to thank you for delivering the Safeguarding supervision training. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it to be very useful.

The techniques and strategies which you discussed are ones that I have attempted to already use and look forward to implementing further.

I particularly enjoyed the group role play element and was genuinely surprised as to what an affect a session such as that can have in assisting a member of staff.

Since the course I have made a real effort to think about the language which I use when talking to staff regarding any concerns and have found this subtle change to be effective as staff appear to have left seemingly in a better frame of mind to tackle whatever concern they had raised.

I really enjoyed the training day and felt I gained new skills and experience from it and an appropriate model for supervision.

I think the reflective practice and ability to not try to resolve everything will take some time to embed but feel this is important to get the most of the supervision for the staff.