The Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit in partnership with Newcastle City Council Children’s Social Care are offering Knife Crime Awareness training for practitioners across Newcastle. The purpose of the training is to give professionals a better understanding of this topic including the law around knives and offensive weapons, factors that increase a person's vulnerability to becoming...

We would like to offer practitioners, especially those who lead on plans for children and their families, in Children’s Social Care and Early Help Services the opportunity to come together and participate in a Reflective Learning Circle. A circle can represent wholeness, inclusion and unity and is a way of sharing knowledge, learning and experience...

These Restorative Practice Masterclasses are for staff who work with babies, children, young people and their families in Newcastle. They can be attended as standalone sessions or as a series of 3. The masterclasses are designed to deepen understanding of relational and restorative practices, and to provide practical tools to support you in adopting this...

This half-day session will cover: Basic human needs: what 'good enough' parenting/development/childhood looks like; the impact of ACEs on the concept of 'good enough'; the, often, profound consequences when ACEs are multiple and/or repeated. The neurobiology of threat: the developing brain; the specific vulnerabilities of children and teenagers to psychological trauma forming and 'deforming' their...