The Children's Involvement Team can offer a range of training sessions for you and your staff. All our training can be adapted to meet the specific needs of your organisation and staff. Please contact us for more information.

Description: Based on the 'Let's Get Involved' and 'Let's Get Everyone Involved' toolkits we have produced, our training programmes include background theory to involving children in your setting and presents a wide range of practical techniques to allow children to participate more easily in your setting.

Suitable for: Anyone working with children who would like to use children's voices to shape their practice

Duration: Half day, or can be combined with another of our half day sessions to make a full day

Cost: Please contact us

Quote: "The whole day was brilliant.  Lots of useful info and great ideas / tools to work with"

>> See the resources section for more information about the toolkit that this training is based on

Description: One page profiles are a great person centred involvement technique. The training includes opportunties to explore the benefits of one page profiles, covers how to creatively complete them with children and young people and shows how they can be made useful in your service

Suitable for: Practitioners working with children and young people

Duration: 1 hour, or can be combined with 'Including Children and Young people with Disabilities in Participation and Consultation' to make a half day session

Cost: Please contact us

Quotes: "Short, snappy good resource; very useful, enthusiastic team" Teacher at Seven Hills Special School

"Really enjoyed the session. It was interesting, pacey and I could see this working with our job" Social Worker at Rushey Meadow short break provision

>>See the One Page Profile page for more information about the profiles

Description: Our staff have all succesfully completed the School Council UK 'Training the Trainer' course and are qualified to support and advise schools in the school council agenda. Whether you are starting a school council from scratch or simply want some advice and ideas to give your school council a lift, we are available to come into your school and support you.

Suitable for: Staff responsible for school councils in schools

Duration: Full day

Cost: Please contact us

Quotes: "Great course – very practical – lots of good ideas!" Teacher following school council training session

"This has given me a really solid structure to work through rather than jumping from one thing to another" Teaching Assistant following school council training session

>>For our popular school council resources please click here

Description: This training is designed to support direct work with children and young people, for example for use in social care and MAST teams. The training covers how to use the CommuniCRATE to its full potential. It looks at the resources in detail and examines how each one could be used in different situations faced during direct work with children and young people.

Suitable for: All staff engaged in direct wotk with children and young people; particularly useful for social workers and MAST staff

Duration: Half day

Cost: Please contact us

Quotes: "Inspiring – I will be using the resources in my work from now on" Social Worker

"Excellent. Really useful tools and ideas for communicating with young people of different ages or stages of development" Social Worker

"It was very practical and will be useful when I am doing direct work with young people" Social Worker

>> For more information on the resources inside the CRATE click here

Description: As an active member of the Sheffield Multi Agency Participation (MAP) Group, we are able to support services in self-assessing themselves against the Sheffield Involvement Standards and can offer training and support to raise levels of participation within your organisation.

Suitable for: All staff interetsed in children and young people's involvement

Duration: Half day

Cost: Please contact us

>> Click here to see the Sheffield Involvement Standards

>>Click here for more deatils on Sheffield Multi Agency Participation (MAP) Group