Enfield Trauma Informed Practice in Schools and Settings

A trauma-informed approach across Enfield

Enfield Trauma Informed Practice in Schools and Settings (E-TIPSS) is a partnership initiative across Enfield to help children and young people, and the adults caring and working with them. The ambition is to implement trauma informed approach through aligning our work with the Attachment Regulation and Competency Framework (ARC).

This is providing a consistent structure, language and approach for use across settings and the partnership. E-TIPSS and applying the ARC Framework (PDF, 132.16 KB) is a preventative approach and applied when planning the routines of the day and thinking about:

• our ethos and environments
• delivering the curriculum
• developing policies
• communicating with and supporting our children, our families, our staff and our whole community

How services have adapted their work

The EPS is implementing E-TIPSS/ARC framework across the work of the service:

• Emotionally Based Non-School Attendance (EBSNA) : The  guidance and the offer including the workshops have been aligned with the ARC framework
• Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA) : The training and supervision for the Emtional Literacy Support Assistants has been aligned with the ARC framework
• SWERRL has been developing its trauma informed approach for many years and has aligned its work with E-TIPSS / ARC Framework – weaving it into the thread of the Service and every aspect of the work they do, for example:
  • The service has developed SAMI (SWERRL ARC Modelling Intervention) which is aligned to E-TIPSS/ARC Framework and includes modelling and coaching for school staff
  • SWERRL’s psycho-educational scheme of work for onsite pupils includes modelling and coaching opportunities for school staff and is informed by E-TIPPS/ARC
  • COSIE (Creating Optimal Safe and Inclusive Environments) training uses aspects of trauma informed work to join up the necessary knowledge schools need for the use of restraint with trauma-informed early de-escalation strategies coupled with giving school staff a 'trauma lens' when looking at a pupil who may present with challenging behaviour
• The Virtual School for LAC is rolling out ARC training and community practice support opportunities for colleagues across Children’s Services and Designated Safeguarding Leads and Designated Teachers for LAC in our schools
• The EPS is implementing E-TIPSS/ARC framework across the work of the service:
  • Championing the ARC framework through the work in other services, for example ECASS, EASA, The Virtual School for Looked After Children, SWERRL and MYME
  • Presenting ARC through the SMHL network
  • Submitting ARC aligned psychological advice for vulnerable children with SEMH needs
  • Ensuring strategies and guidance documents are E-TIPSS/ARC aligned, for example, the SEMH section of the Ordinarily Available Provision and the EPS Critical Incident Response for Schools and Settings
• The Early Years Partnership (including the Virtual School for LAC) are planning an introduction session to E-TIPSS/ARC framework for all EY settings and partners. It will provide input to help EY practitioners understand how young children may respond to difficult childhood experiences and how this can affect the way they relate to the adults trying to help them. It will give ideas about how to support children to calm down when they are upset or anxious. There will be a focus on creating trauma informed Early Years settings that will benefit all children, families and staff with links will be made between the EY Foundation Stage and the ARC Framework.

Training

• E-TIPSS offer for school settings and partners
• E-TIPSS offer for leaders
• E-TIPSS offer for early years settings and partners

Productivity and Impact

• View the E-TIPSS Schools & Services dashboard here.
• View the E-TIPSS Early Years dashboard here.

For more information on our service, please contact e-tipss@enfield.gov.uk.