Enfield Trauma Informed Practice in Schools and Settings

A trauma-informed approach across Enfield

Enfield Trauma Informed Practice in Schools and Settings (E-TIPSS) is a partnership initiative across Enfield to help children and young people, and the adults caring and working with them. The ambition is to implement trauma informed approach through aligning our work with the Attachment Regulation and Competency Framework (ARC).

This is providing a consistent structure, language and approach for use across settings and the partnership. E-TIPSS and applying the ARC Framework (PDF, 132.16 KB) is a preventative approach and applied when planning the routines of the day and thinking about:

• our ethos and environments
• delivering the curriculum
• developing policies
• communicating with and supporting our children, our families, our staff and our whole community

How services have adapted their work

The EPS is implementing E-TIPSS/ARC framework across the work of the service:

• Emotionally Based Non-School Attendance (EBSNA) : The  guidance and the offer including the workshops have been aligned with the ARC framework
• Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA) : The training and supervision for the Emtional Literacy Support Assistants has been aligned with the ARC framework
• SWERRL has been developing its trauma informed approach for many years and has aligned its work with E-TIPSS / ARC Framework – weaving it into the thread of the Service and every aspect of the work they do, for example:
  • The service has developed SAMI (SWERRL ARC Modelling Intervention) which is aligned to E-TIPSS/ARC Framework and includes modelling and coaching for school staff
  • SWERRL’s psycho-educational scheme of work for onsite pupils includes modelling and coaching opportunities for school staff and is informed by E-TIPPS/ARC
  • PRICE training uses aspects of trauma informed work to join up the necessary knowledge schools need for the use of restraint with trauma-informed early de-escalation strategies coupled with giving school staff a 'trauma lens' when looking at a pupil who may present with challenging behaviour
• The Virtual School for LAC is rolling out ARC training and community practice support opportunities for colleagues across Children’s Services and Designated Safeguarding Leads and Designated Teachers for LAC in our schools
• The EPS is implementing E-TIPSS/ARC framework across the work of the service:
  • Championing the ARC framework through the work in other services, for example ECASS, EASA, The Virtual School for Looked After Children, SWERRL and MYME
  • Presenting ARC through the SMHL network
  • Submitting ARC aligned psychological advice for vulnerable children with SEMH needs
  • Ensuring strategies and guidance documents are E-TIPSS/ARC aligned, for example, the SEMH section of the Ordinarily Available Provision and the EPS Critical Incident Response for Schools and Settings
• The Early Years Partnership (including the Virtual School for LAC) are planning an introduction session to E-TIPSS/ARC framework for all EY settings and partners. It will provide input to help EY practitioners understand how young children may respond to difficult childhood experiences and how this can affect the way they relate to the adults trying to help them. It will give ideas about how to support children to calm down when they are upset or anxious. There will be a focus on creating trauma informed Early Years settings that will benefit all children, families and staff with links will be made between the EY Foundation Stage and the ARC Framework.

Training

• E-TIPSS offer for school settings and partners
• E-TIPSS offer for leaders

Productivity and Impact

Read more about the productivity and impact of E-TIPSS.

Read our Summative Report of E-TIPSS.

For more information on our service, please contact e-tipss@enfield.gov.uk.

E-TIPSS Summer Event - 9^th of June 1-3.30pm, Enfield Council, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, EN1 3XA

E-TIPSS would like to invite you to an event being hosted by the Local Area Partnership. It will be an opportunity to hear about progress of the project so far and impact it has had on the outcomes of young people and schools across Enfield.

The event will be attended by schools and E-TIPSS champions who have been on the journey to implementing the principles of Trauma Informed Practice and the ARC framework. We will also be hearing from services that have been on the journey to becoming more trauma informed in how they work and engage with service users.

There will be a keynote speech delivered by Viv Trask-Hall DFIFIP (Head of Theory and Practice at Thrive), an experienced education leader and advocate for inclusion. Viv is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Forums of Inclusive Practitioners; she has a strong track record in driving innovation in education and social and emotional development. With leadership experience as a SENCO, Headteacher, Executive Headteacher and MAT founder. Her expertise spans the age ranges, with specialisms in early years and SEND.

Viv will be discussing The Neuroscience of Feeling ‘At Home’: Why mattering supports belonging & wellbeing. She will explore how emotional safety, mattering and relational practice work together to help children feel settled/secure so that they can be in a better position to access and engage in learning. She will also be sharing the science behind these ideas and link it directly to what educators see in settings.

This will be an opportunity to access CPD on a topic that is pertinent for all school settings.

The event will also give schools that have not yet engaged with E-TIPSS an opportunity to hear about the programme and the difference it can make to the outcomes of students and their care givers (including staff, parents and carers).

Register for the E-TIPSS Summer Event