LEHSS -Understanding and Supporting Emotionally-Based School Avoidance EBSA

LEHSS - Understanding and Supporting Emotionally-based School Avoidance (EBSA)

This session forms part of the LEHSS Targeted Support Pathway of Support

What is this training about?

This session will briefly review theory and models for understanding anxiety and stress in children and young people. We will then introduce a compassionate-mind approach to understanding anxiety, which is an evolution-based theory based on our brain's emotional control systems.

We will then think about how these theories help us understand EBS, and how to use these ideas to support students who struggle with attendance, and communicate this way of thinking with their families.

What will you learn and gain from this training:

• An introduction to models of stress and anxiety and general principles for understanding and supporting students who experience these difficulties.
• Understanding how anxiety can affect school attendance, and good practice ideas for how to support students and their families when attendance is an issue.
• Practical strategies and resources that are effective to use as a school professional.

PLEASE NOTE: this training session is only available to staff employed by schools and colleges within the Lancashire County Council area. Places cannot be allocated to people employed by other services or who work in schools outside this area. This training is fully funded by LCC and there is no charge to staff directly employed by a school or college within the LCC area. Please use your school or college email on registration to demonstrate your eligibility. Any bookings made without a Lancashire school or college email address will be cancelled.

The pathway is a comprehensive offer to educational settings, and consists of evidence-based training sessions delivered on Microsoft Teams and one-to-one specialist consultations to support staff to apply the knowledge and skills taught practically in their settings.

All of our training sessions map onto key elements of the following guidance: OFSTED Inspection Framework; Public Health England/Department for Education (2021) Promoting children and young people's mental health and wellbeing guidance; NICE (2022) Social, emotional and mental wellbeing in primary and secondary education guidance; Department for Education and Department for Health (2015) SEND Code of Practice. Further details of how this pathway of support maps onto and implements this guidance can be found at our website: www.lehss.co.uk

Each school and college setting in the LCC area has access to a unique password-protected Compassionate Schools Hub account, which included a Training Tracker function compiling all of the LEHSS training sessions attended by staff in that setting. Please be advised that by attending our training and completing the sign in register you are agreeing for a record of your name, the title of the training course and date you attended a course to be uploaded to your setting’s Compassionate Schools Hub account. This means that the individual assigned to your setting’s Compassionate Schools Hub Account will be able to view this information. For further information on how we use your data please view the Compassionate Schools Hub Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy accessible at https://cs-hub.co.uk