Inclusive Practices
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Attendance - Collaborative Conversation Target Audience: Primary and Secondary - SLT and guidance An opportunity to share practice, jointly problem solve and identify further developments. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 10 September 2025 - 9.30am - 10.30am - Online Ms Teams 19 November 2025 - 9.30am - 10.30am - Online Ms Teams
Presenter: Rhianna Brodie - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: Share good practice and continue to develop consistent and effective responses to supporting pupils with attendance in PKC schools. Participants will feel able to effectively support attendance through their use of data, use of the staged intervention framework for attendance and through sharing practice.
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CIRCLE Up, Up and Away Workshop Target Audience: all ELC and Primary One staff Practical support for those working in the Early Years to engage with and use the CIRCLE Up, Up, and Away document to support high quality provision for all children that is inclusive, developmentally - appropriate, and secures children's learning and progression. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 15 September 2025 - 3.30pm - 5.00pm - Kinross Primary School 27 November 2025 - 3.30pm - 5.00pm - Coupar Angus Primary School
Presenter: Carly Williams and Pauline Linn - Perth and Kinross Council
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Connecting with Parents Motivation Target Audience: All staff supporting children, young people and their families. Connecting with Parents Motivation is a strength-based communication skills training system. It is designed to enhance the abilities of the early years and the wider children and families workforce, so that they can have more of the kinds of conversations with parents that facilitate uptake of support. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 27 August 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Perth Grammar School
Presenter: Megan Campbell and Rebecca Ewan - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: Develop empathy for parents of young children with behaviour problems. Help engage parents with support to deal with challenges with their children’s health & wellbeing or behaviour. Refresh communication skills and understand ambivalence. Practitioners will have increased confidence to support parents to access services.
Practitioners will be confident to use Open ended questions, Affirmations, Reflection and Summaries when responding to change talk.
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ELC 'Nurturing Relationships' Programme Target Audience: Partner Provider setting Following a successful pilot year, the PKC Nurturing Relationships team are delighted to offer a 6-month training programme for practitioners within ELC partner providers settings. The training offers an introduction to the key theory which underpins nurturing approaches and the Six Nurture Principles.
The course consists of four 2-hour online modules, each divided into 15-minute sessions to allow for flexible completion and participants are asked to submit responses to reflective questions based on the training videos. The online modules are supplemented by four mandatory 1-hour live reflective sessions, facilitated by the Nurturing Relationships and Early Years team. Settings which complete the full programme will be awarded a certificate of completion.
View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: Module 1: released 3 November 2025 Module 2: released 11 December 2025 Reflective Practice session: 11 December 2025 - between 6.00pm - 7.00pm Module 3: released 19 February 2026 Reflective Practice session: 19 February 2026 - between 6.00pm - 7.00pm Module 4: released 2 April 2026 Reflective Practice session: 2 April 2026 - between 6.00pm - 7.00pm Reflective Practice session: 14 May 2026 - between 6.00pm - 7.00pm Course ends - 14 May 2026 All sessions online Ms Teams
Presenter: Lee Fairlie, Rachel Rennie and Leah Smart - Perth and Kinross Council
Aim: To promote understanding of the core concepts and theory underpinning the PKC Nurturing Relationships approach within Early Learning establishments and childcare providers. Outcome: Children and ELC settings benefitting from Practitioners who are increasingly confident in delivering nurturing approaches.
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Moving and Handling (Full Training) Target Audience: Education Staff based in schools and ELC settings Overview of relevant legislation relating to safe manual handling practice, and your responsibilities in relation to this.
The importance of Risk Assessment, and how to approach it.
Spinal function and back health, including the key principles of bio-mechanics.
Controversial Techniques.
Moving and Handling in an emergency situation.
Complex Transitions.
Practical sessions-demonstrations and practise using skills and equipment to support safer Manual Handling techniques and manoeuvre.
View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 6 October 2025 - 9.00am - 3.00pm - Perth High School Presenter: Lucy Marshall, Nikki Dow and Jemma Oswald - Perth and Kinross Council
Date, Time and Venue: 1 December 2025 - 9.00am - 3.00pm - Bertha Park Presenter: Lucy Marshall and Nicola Schelbert - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: Staff will be clear on the legislation surrounding manual handling and movement of children and young people. Staff will develop confidence in safe manual handling practice.
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Moving and Handling (Refresher) Target Audience: Education Staff based in schools and ELC settings Overview of relevant legislation relating to safe manual handling practice, and your responsibilities in relation to this.
The importance of Risk Assessment, and how to approach it. Spinal function and back health, including the key principles of bio-mechanics. Controversial Techniques. Moving and Handling in an emergency situation. Complex Transitions.
Practical sessions-demonstrations and practise using skills and equipment to support safer Manual Handling techniques and manoeuvre.
View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 14 November 2025 - 9.00am - 1.00pm - Bertha Park
Presenter: Sarah Rhind and Diane Robertson - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: Staff will be clear on the legislation surrounding manual handling and movement of children and young people. Staff will develop confidence in safe manual handling practice.
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Moving and Handling (ELC – No Hoist) Target Audience: Education Staff based in schools and ELC settings Overview of relevant legislation relating to safe manual handling practice, and your responsibilities in relation to this. The importance of Risk Assessment, and how to approach it.
Spinal function and back health, including the key principles of bio-mechanics.
Controversial Techniques. Moving and Handling in an emergency situation.
Complex Transitions.
View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 15 December 2025 - 9.00am - 1.00pm - Bertha Park
Presenter: Jemma Oswald and Nikki Dow - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: Staff will be clear on the legislation surrounding manual handling and movement of children and young people. Staff will develop confidence in safe manual handling practice.
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Positive Relationships Target Audience: ELC, Out of School Care, Childminders This is a face to face session that will provide a framework for supporting children who are experiencing behaviour challenges, to enable them to regulate themselves to the greatest extent possible whilst taking on board your own knowledge, skills and experience. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 28 August 2025 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - North Inch Community Campus, Perth and 23 September 2025 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - online Ms Teams - follow up sharing practice session
26 November 2025 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - North Inch Community Campus, Perth and 16 December 2025 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - online Ms Teams - follow up sharing practice session
Presenter: Shona O'Connor - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: To support practitioners who want to have a better understanding of how to respond to children. The course will provide discussions around self-regulation and how this can be used when supporting children who are experiencing challenges. The session will give the opportunity to explore top tips but also take on board, participants own knowledge skills, experience and sharing good practice.
By the end of the course participants should be able to:
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Practical Understanding of Autism Target Audience: Staff working in Early Years This session will provide a general understanding of autism, how we can look beneath what we see to realise the underlying reasons for different presentations and what this may mean for young people. Thinking about what we understand about autism, we will discuss some practical supports that can be implemented for the young people we work with. We will discuss the strategies to try, any challenges we feel parents may have in implementing any change and a general Q&A on autism with our trainers. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 13 November 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Perth Grammar School
Presenter: Perth Autism
Aims and Outcomes: Introduction to understanding Autism, Think about applying the theory in your setting
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Reflective Practice - Relationships and Behaviour Target Audience: Primary and Secondary staff This series of sessions are designed to support those who have undertaken key pieces of PKC professional learning in the area of Relationships and Wellbeing and wish to adopt a practitioner enquiry approach to embedding practice. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 18 September 2025 - 9.00am - 11.00am - 2 High Street, Perth - Room 415 4 December 2025 - 9.00am - 11.00am - 2 High Street, Perth - Room 415 Note: please attend both sessions as part of a Programme
Presenter: Rachel Rennie and Aimee Watt - Educational Psychology Service - Perth and Kinross Council
Aims and Outcomes: To provide staff with space and support to think about their prior learning and how they wish to put it into practice through a practitioner enquiry model.
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Relationships and Behaviour Action Research Target Audience: Senior leaders of schools wishing to review relationships and behaviour, involving other school staff as appropriate The programme’s objective will be to support SLTs and practitioners to review their situation, be familiar with all existing materials (and those in development such as work on ‘consequences’ and ‘Rights of the Many vs Rights of the Few’ national work) and target actions accordingly, evaluating the impact as this proceeds. The overall aim will be to support positive, sustainable context-based improvement in individual schools and draw together authority wide themes for further service level improvement. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: Session 1 - 3 September 2025 - 4.00pm - 5.30pm - Ms Teams Session 2 - 1 October 2025 - 4.00pm - 5.30pm - Ms Teams Session 3 - 4 November 2025 - 9.30am - 12.00pm - Perth Grammar School Session 4 - 9 December 2025 - 9.30am - 12.00pm - 2 High Street Session 5 - 21 January 2026 - 4.00pm - 5.30pm - Ms Teams Session 6 - 20 May 2026 - 9.30am - 12.00pm - 2 High Street Note: please attend all sessions as part of the Programme
Presenter: Julie Martin, Hannah Sissons, Connor Caller - Perth and Kinross Council
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Solihull Approach - Foundation Training Target Audience: All staff supporting children, young people and their families. The Solihull Approach is a framework which helps provide a practical way of working with and supporting families. It aims to increase the emotional health and wellbeing of children and their families, ensuring children have a good emotional start in life whilst supporting parents in a creative and consistent approach. The Solihull Approach helps parents process their own emotions and anxieties allowing them to cope and focus more clearly on how to assist their children's emotions, anxieties and behaviours. View course detailsThis course will include pre and mid course learning materials, these must be completed within the timeframes provided by the trainers.
Date, Time and Venue: Group 2
Session 1 – 23 September 2025 - 6.00pm - 9.00pm - The Honeypot Nursery, Almondbank
Session 2 – 30 September 2025 - 6.00pm - 9.00pm - The Honeypot Nursery, Almondbank
Session 3 - 7 October 2025 - 6.00pm - 9.00pm - online Ms Teams
Presenter: Gregory Potter and Carly Williams - Perth and Kinross Council
Group 3
Session 1 – 7 October 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Perth Grammar School
Session 2 – 28 October 2025 - 3.00pm - 6.00pm - online Ms Teams (twilight session)
Presenter: Linda Reid and Wendy Baird - Perth and Kinross Council
Group 4
Session 1 – 13 November 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Breadalbane Academy
Session 2 – 20 November 2025 - 3.30pm - 6.30pm - online Ms Teams (twilight session)
Presenter: Catriona Roberts - Perth and Kinross Council
Group 5
Session 1 – 17 November 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Homestart, The Gateway, Perth
Session 2 – 24 November 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Homestart, The Gateway, Perth
Presenter: Tammy Fleuchar and Gregory Potter - Perth and Kinross Council
Group 6
Session 1 – 1 December 2025 - 9.30am - 4.30pm - Perth Grammar School
Session 2 – 15 December 2025 - 3.30pm - 6.30pm - online Ms Teams (twilight session)
Presenter: Natasha Taylor and Shona O'Connor - Perth and Kinross Council
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Support Staff Development Day - Nurturing Relationships in PKC Target Audience: Early Years/Primary/Secondary Support Staff Support Staff will have the opportunity to reflect on the importance of nurturing relationships and the key role of our pupil support assistants and support staff.
Through a variety of workshops delivered by our Inclusion Teams they will have an opportunity to further develop skills and strategies that will support meeting the needs of our learners.
Further information Workshops Overview
View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 14 November 2025 - 9.00am - 3.00pm - North Inch Community Campus
Presenter: Educational Psychologist and Inclusion Teams
Aims and Outcomes: Support Staff will have the opportunity to reflect on the importance of nurturing relationships and the key role of our pupil support assistants and support staff.
Through a variety of workshops delivered by our Inclusion Teams they will have an opportunity to further develop skills and strategies that will support meeting the needs of our learners.
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Supporting the Learning and Development of Boys in the ELC Setting - Closing the Gender Attainment Gap Target Audience: ELC Practitioners and Leaders, Early Primary School Teachers and Support Staff During this training, you will hear about the gaps in developmental milestone data between boys and girls in ELC settings. You will explore how unconscious gender bias can impact on interactions and provision in ELC settings, and discuss with colleagues how to ensure the needs of boys are met in your ELC setting. Signposting to up to date reading and research will also be provided. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 10 September 2025 - 3.30pm - 5.30pm - 2 High Street, Perth - Room 410
Presenter: Carly Williams, Nina Roberts and Sally McDougall - Perth and Kinross Council
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Supporting the Learning and Development of Boys in the ELC Setting - Closing the Gender Attainment Gap - Sharing Practice session Target Audience: anyone who has previously attended Closing the Gender Attainment Gap training session To provide you with the chance to share the outcome of your takeaway task from the first session. View course detailsDate, Time and Venue: 29 October 2025 - 4.00pm - 5.00pm - online Ms Teams
Presenter: Carly Williams, Nina Roberts and Sally McDougall - Perth and Kinross Council
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