1st Edition
A Practical Resource for Supporting Children’s Right to Feel Safe
Introduction Session 1 Feeling Safe Session 2 My Safety Scale Session 3 Let’s Help Joe Session 4 My Network Session 5 Don’t Give Up Session 6 Feeling Safer Appendices Appendix 1 – Body Outline Appendix 2 – Feelings Alphabet Appendix 3 – My Safety Scale Appendix 4 – Safety Scale Cards Appendix 5 – Safety Scale Situations Appendix 6 – I Feel Safe When…. Appendix 7 – Top 10 Activities Appendix 8 – Leaf Template Appendix 9 – Network Template Appendix 10 – Network Bookmark Appendix 11 – Network Invitation Appendix 12 – Persistence Cards Appendix 13 – Being A Helpful Friend Appendix 14 – My Safe Safe Appendix 15 – We all have the right to feel safe poster Appendix 16 - Breathing, Relaxation and Waking up!
Biography
Liz Bates is an independent education consultant. She supports both primary and secondary schools in all aspects of Emotional Health and Wellbeing, and Safeguarding, including whole school approaches, training staff and delivering talks to parents. Liz is a Protective Behaviours Trainer, a Wellbeing Award Advisor for Optimus and a regular contributor at national conferences.
"Something Has Happened is a valuable and practical safeguarding resource for all professionals who work with children. It covers key themes about feeling and being safe in a detailed, yet engaging, way. The reading book can be used as a standalone resource with clear language and charming illustration, but when combined with the lesson plans and resources it becomes an even more powerful tool to empower children to recognise their own feelings of safety or otherwise and to act upon those feelings appropriately to safeguard themselves.Staff are clearly guided through the lesson plans, with suggestions of appropriate language to use to draw out the main protective behaviours themes and useful photocopiable resources are provided. The fact that we never learn what Joe's "worry" is helps to make the resource universal - it can be used in the curriculum to support children with common worries, through to things that require an "Early Help" approach with other agencies, through to serious disclosures of abuse and neglect. Giving children the language and permission to talk about their worries in this way is both powerful and positive."
Jo Perrin, Lead Safeguarding Adviser, Services For Education
