Training for schools and colleges
For SENCOs, ALNCos, pastoral and inclusion leads, attendance teams, and whole-staff INSET.
School CPD budgets are small and the calendar is full, so a training day has to be worth the cover. The courses here are built around what actually turns up in a school week: the child who cannot get through the gate, the one whose behaviour reads as defiance and is not, the annual safeguarding update that has to reach every member of staff including the office and the site team.
Sessions are delivered by clinicians who also hold teaching qualifications. Two of Blip's trainers have taught in schools, one holds a PGCE in Additional Learning Needs and spent five years as a SEN tutor for ages 7 to 19. They know what a Tuesday looks like from the staffroom as well as from the clinic.
Courses for schools and colleges
Full catalogueAttachment and Developmental Trauma
Attachment as a survival strategy rather than a behaviour problem, and what developmental trauma does to a developing brain. Built for staff who see the same children every day.
Emotionally Based School Avoidance
EBSA separated from truancy and from withheld attendance, why avoidance grows, and how to build a graduated return plan that survives a bad week.
Safeguarding Children: Group B (Level 2), Wales
The Group B day for people who work directly with children in registered childcare in Wales. Built to the Wales Safeguarding Procedures, not adapted from an English course.
Safeguarding Children: Group B (Level 2), England
The English edition of the Level 2 day, built on Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and the EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements in force from 1 September 2026.
Trauma Informed Practice
Built so the whole workforce can sit in the same room, and deliberately as useful to a receptionist as to a practitioner. Delegates leave with a structured self-audit of their own service.
KCSIE 2026 Annual Update
The annual update, built for whole-staff delivery with no cap on numbers. KCSIE 2026 withdrew the condensed Part one, so support staff now need the same briefing as the classroom.
Trauma or Neurodiversity?
Two trainers, one from each specialism, because a single trainer reliably favours the side they trained in. Both wrong turns are covered at the same weight, including the one practitioners cause.
Self-harm and Suicide: responding safely, Wales
Most training on this subject teaches people to predict. The national guideline says in four separate recommendations not to, and this day replaces prediction with response.
Self-harm and Suicide: responding safely, England
Most training on this subject teaches people to predict. The national guideline says in four separate recommendations not to, and this day replaces prediction with response.
Whole-staff sessions, and the ones that need a smaller room
The KCSIE annual update is priced with no per-delegate charge, because it is sold as a whole-staff INSET slot: a hall of 120 costs the same as a group of 20. That is deliberate. Every member of staff now has to read Part one in full, and a briefing that only reaches the teaching team leaves a gap.
Other courses work better small. Trauma informed practice asks people to name the points where their own service gets it wrong, and it does not go well when a manager is sitting with their own staff. We will say so at quote stage rather than after the day.
Blip does not run designated safeguarding lead training, and does not run the safer recruitment training KCSIE expects a member of an appointment panel to hold. Both belong with your safeguarding partnership or a specialist provider.
Where a pupil needs more than training can give
Blip is also an independent mental health service for ages 7 to 25, taking referrals from schools with triage within two working days. Buying training does not commit you to the service, and the two are quoted separately.
Free, one page
EBSA: the first fortnight
A one-page checklist for the two weeks after a child stops making it through the school gate, when what the adults do next decides how long this lasts.
- What to do in the first 48 hours, and the three things that make it worse
- The questions that find the actual trigger, and the ones that close a child down
- A simple return plan template, with the conditions that make it hold
Common questions
Do you run designated safeguarding lead training?
No. Blip does not run DSL training, and does not run the safer recruitment training KCSIE expects a member of an appointment panel to hold. Both belong with your safeguarding partnership or a specialist provider. What Blip does run is the KCSIE annual update for all staff, and Safeguarding Children Group B at Level 2, in separate England and Wales editions.
How much does whole-staff INSET cost?
The KCSIE annual update is priced with no per-delegate charge, so a hall of 120 costs the same as a group of 20. That is deliberate: every member of staff now has to read Part one in full, and a briefing that only reaches the teaching team leaves a gap. It runs two hours, in a twilight or an INSET slot, from £450 in person or online.
Can we put all our staff through the same session?
For the KCSIE update, yes, and that is how it is designed. Other courses work better small. Trauma informed practice asks people to name the points where their own service gets it wrong, and it does not go well when a manager is sitting with their own staff. We will say so at quote stage rather than after the day.
Who delivers training for schools?
Clinicians who also hold teaching qualifications. Two of Blip's trainers have taught in schools, and one holds a PGCE in Additional Learning Needs and spent five years as a SEN tutor for ages 7 to 19. They know what a Tuesday looks like from the staffroom as well as from the clinic.
Talk to us about a date
Tell us the course, the numbers and the term, or email training@blip.org.uk.
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