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Understand potential outcomes for children enduring ACEs

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In this lesson, you will learn:

Types of traumatic events a child may experience
The more ACEs someone has, the more likely they are to have negative outcomes
That if a child experiences adversity in their early years, then this is far more likely to negatively affect their development and wellbeing

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Click to read ‘The impact of adverse experiences in the home on the health of children and young people, and inequalities in prevalence and effects’ by the UCL Institute of Health Equity
‘How to support children with ACEs in early years settings’ by Lorraine Jenkin, published in Teach Early Years
‘Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in an offender population in Wales’ by Public Health Wales
Click to read ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences and their association with Mental Well-being in the Welsh adult population’ by Public Health Wales
‘National household survey of adverse childhood experiences and their relationship with resilience to health-harming behaviors in England’ by Mark Bellis, et. al., published in BMC Medicine, 2014
Click to read ‘What are ACEs?’ on the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland website

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