Whether it is trauma informed, attachment aware, child centred etc etc professionals working with young people strive to understand and address individual needs a young person has. Often the terminology can create difficulties – for example saying trauma informed makes some feel they are making a diagnosis. For this reason I want to lay out a way of working that I call “Child Informed Planning”…
What is a child informed plan? The process of creating such a plan involves gathering as much information about a young person as possible from a variety of sources and using this to establish what might be happening for a young person and what they might need to help them learn, thrive and enjoy positive relationships.
Through a series of blog posts I will outline this process in the coming weeks
- Gathering background information about a young person
- Assessment tools when working with a young person
- Observing a young person
- Gathering the views of the young person
- Meeting with professionals and others to discuss the young person
- Formulating a simple one page plan for teachers/pastoral staff
- Writing a full plan
This post will be updated in the coming weeks with links to the content posted above.
