Supporting Staff in Our School
As an adoption-friendly school, we:
- Provide training for all staff in attachment, trauma and loss
- Take a graduated approach in staff’s continuing professional development
- Ensure that training leads to changes in practice
- Understand secondary trauma and blocked care and make staff aware of these
- Commit to looking after staff so they can look after children well
- Develop peer support for staff
- Offer external supervision and counselling for staff as needed
- Encourage and enable staff to care for themselves