Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text
- ‘Helping your child develop a healthy sense of self-esteem’ webpage on the Healthy Children website.
- ‘How to build your child’s self-esteem’ webpage on the Todays Parent website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click this icon and read this article from The Guardian’s Penny Gregory about encouraging children’s choices. Includes suggestions for activities.
- Click this icon and read 'Building self-esteem: children 1-8 years’ webpage on the Raising Children website. Click on the icon to the left to read this article.
- Click to read ‘Excellence and Enjoyment: social and emotional aspects of learning’ by the National Strategies. This document was published under a previous government and may not reflect current policy, but much of the guidance is still relevant today.
- Try to obtain and read pages 248- 249 of ‘Understanding Child Development: Linking Theory and Practice’ by Jennie Lindon, published by Hodder Arnold. The pages are about vulnerability and resilience. Your setting may have a copy of this book or you might like to look for it at your local library.
- Click to read 'DfE and ACPO drug advice for schools' by the Department for Education.
- Click to read 'An innovative approach to learning about healthy relationships, abuse and consent: Notre Dame RC School' by Ofsted.
- 'Coping with self-harm: A guide for parents and carers' by The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Click on the icon to read guidance which you may find useful for your role.
- Visit the Child Development Institute’s webpage for parents about encouraging children’s self-esteem
- Think And Challenge
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