Our first venture was to enlist a specialist training provider to help plan our route. We enlisted the support of KCA to provide several INSET training sessions, in which we invited colleagues and partners from different agencies in the area, as to start the journey in a collaborative manner.

The training was a huge success, which not only developed our knowledge of ATIP skills, but also improved relationships in the local area, allowing much more effective working relationships

During this time, we setup weekly group supervision sessions for all our staff and offered half-termly supervision sessions to all our external community partners, which proved another really successful venture. Throughout, we under the expert tutelage of our assigned Educational Psychologist Ben, who provided ongoing guidance and support and gave us confidence about our decisions

For Phase 2, we enlisted a new training partner and one we are very excited to still be working with. Beacon House are a specialist clinical psychologist trauma specialist unit; we were so keen to work with them that we drove out to plead our case - luckily they agreed and put on a fantastic INSET around developmental trauma, that again we invited our local partners to.

Another part of this phase was to start offering training to local schools and agencies ourselves; this afforded us to keep making strong working relationships with our local partners and help more of their staff utilise the same ATIP approaches that we use in the centre. By the end of phase 2, we estimated that we had delivered our message to over a thousand professionals

In the Autumn of the 2019-20 term, we took over the management of a new site, another Education Centre nearby. Over the year, the training team has been working closely with their staff team to bring them up to speed regarding ATIP best practice and organising the implementation of the weekly supervision sessions. One of our training team is currently working on his PhD and is using this opportunity to study the positive impact that supervision has on reflective practice.

We have also continued to work with the amazing people at Beacon House - we are in the process of organising a bespoke parent & child parallel psycho-education curriculum. We are sure that although now delayed, it will have a significant impact on the outcomes to our pupils come the new academic year!