Ann Seal
Trainer Profile
Introductory workshops, 2-day Foundation, 4-day Intermediate, Train the Trainer
Embedding Protective Behaviours in Primary education settings. Developing Protective Behaviours in Early Years and Secondary settings. Supporting staff across statutory and voluntary sector organisations who work with children and families. Facilitating use of the Protective Behaviours Process in any sector in collaboration with interested staff
Central and Southern England or anywhere further afield nationally or internationally
I have been a Protective Behaviours trainer (Freelance and working for Warwickshire County Council) since 2001, having found Protective Behaviours in 1999. I attended a two day course run by Di Margetts and that was that, totally smitten and excited, as it was just what a colleague and I were looking for to progress the development of a protective curriculum approach to safeguarding in Warwickshire. I was lucky enough to work very closely and intensively with, and alongside, Di over a couple of years and believe that offered me the chance to really embed myself in the process and began a learning experience which still carries on today.
The introduction to Protective Behaviours came about following recommendations from a couple of different people in the UK in response to a national request through professional journals asking if anybody knew any programmes/materials which would be good to use with children in a proactive protective education curriculum programme which had just been established in South Warwickshire. I spent 2 years working in classrooms delivering a Protective Behaviour generic curriculum and realised that if schools were going to embed Protective Behaviours they needed a different curriculum plan for each year group – so that’s what I wrote! It was clear they also needed a whole school approach to training which has always been the way schools engage with the programme (The Taking Care Scheme). We have been using this across Warwickshire since 2002 and now have about 70% of primary children across the county involved with the scheme annually. By summer 2012 approximately 150 primary schools will have had full INSET training and be using Protective Behaviours with children throughout their educational experience. Quite a number of Early Years settings also use Protective Behaviours and a new secondary scheme is under development.
My role also includes delivery of Protective Behaviours courses outside education and in Warwickshire our aim has been to enable any professional working with children and families to learn about the Protective Behaviours Process through Introductory, Foundation or Intermediate level training. Between 2010 and 2011 I trained just under 1000 professionals in Protective Behaviours across the county. We have also trained our own pool of Protective Behaviours Trainers who support the school programme by running INSET days for me.
Nationally I have run courses as far afield as Devon and Yorkshire and other places in between. I am passionate about Protective Behaviours and the differences I see it makes to professional practice and personal life experiences. Please don’t hesitate to make contact if you think I can support you in any way.
My professional background is in nursing and health visiting, teaching in FE and working with primary schools to develop protective education practices. I have a Masters Degree by Research in which I researched teacher perspectives on protecting children through a curriculum approach to safeguarding. I am a manager in the Education Safeguarding Team in Warwickshire and alongside promotion of Protective Behaviours across the education sector, I design and deliver the Designated Person for Child Protection Introduction and Refresher courses for all education staff (state and independent sectors) from Early Years through to FE Colleges. I am a trainer for Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Board, delivering child protection courses.
My particular areas of Protective Behaviours experience are using PBs in education settings (largely primary, but also including early years and special schools and developing in secondary), also working with parents. Protective Behaviours is so versatile that there is no one who would be excluded from potential benefit and my experience of working with large numbers of different specialist staff would mean applications of the process could be facilitated in any sector.
The introduction to Protective Behaviours came about following recommendations from a couple of different people in the UK in response to a national request through professional journals asking if anybody knew any programmes/materials which would be good to use with children in a proactive protective education curriculum programme which had just been established in South Warwickshire. I spent 2 years working in classrooms delivering a Protective Behaviour generic curriculum and realised that if schools were going to embed Protective Behaviours they needed a different curriculum plan for each year group – so that’s what I wrote! It was clear they also needed a whole school approach to training which has always been the way schools engage with the programme (The Taking Care Scheme). We have been using this across Warwickshire since 2002 and now have about 70% of primary children across the county involved with the scheme annually. By summer 2012 approximately 150 primary schools will have had full INSET training and be using Protective Behaviours with children throughout their educational experience. Quite a number of Early Years settings also use Protective Behaviours and a new secondary scheme is under development.
My role also includes delivery of Protective Behaviours courses outside education and in Warwickshire our aim has been to enable any professional working with children and families to learn about the Protective Behaviours Process through Introductory, Foundation or Intermediate level training. Between 2010 and 2011 I trained just under 1000 professionals in Protective Behaviours across the county. We have also trained our own pool of Protective Behaviours Trainers who support the school programme by running INSET days for me.
Nationally I have run courses as far afield as Devon and Yorkshire and other places in between. I am passionate about Protective Behaviours and the differences I see it makes to professional practice and personal life experiences. Please don’t hesitate to make contact if you think I can support you in any way.
My professional background is in nursing and health visiting, teaching in FE and working with primary schools to develop protective education practices. I have a Masters Degree by Research in which I researched teacher perspectives on protecting children through a curriculum approach to safeguarding. I am a manager in the Education Safeguarding Team in Warwickshire and alongside promotion of Protective Behaviours across the education sector, I design and deliver the Designated Person for Child Protection Introduction and Refresher courses for all education staff (state and independent sectors) from Early Years through to FE Colleges. I am a trainer for Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Board, delivering child protection courses.
My particular areas of Protective Behaviours experience are using PBs in education settings (largely primary, but also including early years and special schools and developing in secondary), also working with parents. Protective Behaviours is so versatile that there is no one who would be excluded from potential benefit and my experience of working with large numbers of different specialist staff would mean applications of the process could be facilitated in any sector.
On-line training available
United Kingdom
PBA Council Profile
President
I’m Ann and I have been co-opted to be the currrent president of the PBA having been the first president back in 2018. I have been a PB trainer in the UK since 2001 and am still actively training hundreds of people every year and still absolutely loving it. I use PBs every day, mainly for me and through my language choices, and also with anyone I connect with, however that may be. I see part of my role as being able to elegantly challenge practices and behaviours in organisations and practice that are not Protective Behaviours consistent and are therefore potentially interrupting safety. My professional back-story is nursing, health visiting, teaching and for the last 23 years PBs and education safeguarding, training and supporting education and multi-agency staff. I have written PB materials for parents and curriculum resources for primary children which are used across Warwickshire and further afield. I think one of our most important roles in the PBA is to maintain the integrity of the Protective Behaviours Process as Peg West, Donna Fortin and Di Margetts established and developed it.
