Training and consultancy

Jigsaw4u aims to equip professionals, parents, carers and volunteers with the skills necessary to support children and young people with a variety of social and emotional needs

About Jigsaw4u Training

Jigsaw4u Training and Consultancy aims to equip professionals, parents, carers and volunteers with the skills necessary to support children and young people with complex social and emotional issues such as; bereavement, going missing from home and child sexual exploitation.

Our courses are designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to understand the issues and offer appropriate advice and support to the child, adult and family.The modules can be undertaken as 2 hour, half day or full day course, and can be adapted and packaged together to suit your organisation’s needs.

Benefits of Jigsaw4u Training

Our trainers are particularly skilled in their respective fields, with many qualified social workers and practitioners.
Modules on offer span a broad range of topics; we have expertise in many different fields and can offer a wide variety of training topics, some of these include:

– Grief and Loss

– Playing, Engaging and Communicating with Children

– Child Sexual Exploitation

Bespoke training can be designed to meet the needs of your organisation
Jigsaw4u has 23 years’ of experience working with children and young people in the London Boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Hammersmith and Fulham, Wandsworth and Croydon
Jigsaw4u will come to your organisation to deliver your training

Our Courses

Jigsaw4u’s most popular training courses:

Grief and Loss

Children can be forgotten when someone dies in the family. Adults can find it difficult to know what to say to children and how much to involve them in the process. Jigsaw4u have been working in this area for nearly 20 years and are particularly skilled at ensuring children’s voices are heard after a loss or bereavement.

This training session will help participants to understand the effects of grief of loss, how to support someone who has experienced a bereavement and specifically looking at how to understand the effect of bereavement on children.

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Missing Young People, Return Home Interviews and Sexual Exploitation

Return Home Interviews (RHI) are carried out by an independent agency when a young person goes missing, to find out why they went missing, if they came to any harm, and to identify what work needs to be done to stop them from going missing again.

This training session will help participants to understand what Return Home Interviews (RHI) are, how to support young people through this process and how to engage with children and young people who go missing

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Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a type of sexual abuse in which children and young people are sexually exploited for money, power or status.

This training session will help participants to understand what Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is, how to engage with children who are being exploited and how to support children and young people leaving harmful relationships.

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Play, Engage and Communicate with Children

It can be difficult for professionals to talk to children, particularly about sensitive issues. Often, using play and other resources can put the child and adult at ease and facilitate a really informative and therapeutic session.

This training session will teach participants a variety of techniques and tools to use when working directly with children.

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The modules can be undertaken as a half day or full day course, and can be adapted and packaged together to suit your organisation’s needs. Some 2 hour courses are available, particularly for Return Home Interviews and Grief and Loss. Please contact us for details.

Jigsaw4u can also offer training in these areas upon request:

Children Affected by: Suicide, Cancer
Loss and Attachment
Children/Parental Mental Health
Drug and Alcohol Misuse
Children with Disabilities
Working with Teenagers
Looked-After Children
Hard to Engage Parents
Managing Children’s Difficult Behaviour
Young People in Gangs

Who is the training for?

Training is aimed at any professionals working with children & families. This might include, but is not limited to; social workers, child and family support workers, youth workers, health professionals, teachers, teaching assistants, police officers or community workers.

Our Trainers

All of our trainers have experience of frontline working with children and young people within the area of their training. Many of our trainers also have additional qualifications such as qualified social workers, systemic practitioners or therapists. They are all currently delivering services across 5 London boroughs, predominantly Merton and Sutton, and as such have first-hand knowledge and experience of the needs of the local community.

Cost

Our pricing structure is tiered depending on the sector of your organisation. Fees are per delegate for half day or full day training, or we offer a flat fee for sessions with fewer than 10 people.