WHOLE-SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Give every member of staff practical ways to build safer, stronger relationships.
Becoming One Safe Adult equips teaching and support staff to respond with greater knowledge, confidence and consistency, strengthening the relational practice beneath attendance, inclusion, safeguarding, behaviour and staff wellbeing.
It is not a one-off INSET. Schools receive 12 months’ access to flexible online learning, practical tools and leadership implementation resources.
Approximately 4–5 hours · Five connected chapters · Individual completion certificates
“Everyone working with children needs to do this course. I learnt strategies that I can use tomorrow.”
FROM THE PILOT
Year 5 classroom teacher
WHY THIS, WHY NOW
One programme supporting the pressures schools are already trying to solve.
Becoming One Safe Adult does not replace specialist systems. It strengthens the everyday practice around them, before every difficulty becomes an absence, escalation or referral.
ATTENDANCE
Strengthen connection and belonging.
Help staff understand attendance through relationships, safety and participation alongside existing attendance responsibilities.
SEND & INCLUSION
Build a stronger universal offer.
Give the wider staff team practical ways to notice needs, reduce relational barriers and respond more consistently.
SAFEGUARDING
Make approachability part of everyday practice.
Help more adults understand how children experience safety and what makes seeking help feel possible.
STAFF WELLBEING
Support the adults carrying the work.
Provide practical tools for reflection, emotional load, professional boundaries and appropriate peer support.
THE CHANGE YOU ARE BUYING
From individual good intentions to shared whole-school practice.
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Different adults responding in very different ways
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A shared relational language and greater consistency
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Specialist teams carrying concerns after escalation
TO
More adults equipped to notice and respond earlier
FROM
Wellbeing support sitting outside everyday practice
TO
Practical tools that help staff carry the role sustainably
WHAT YOUR SCHOOL RECEIVES
More than access to an online course.
The programme combines individual learning with the resources leaders need to introduce, revisit and embed it across the school.
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Five focused online chapters
Approximately 4–5 hours of self-paced learning, accessible throughout the 12-month licence.
Practical staff tools
Downloadable resources that turn insight into reflection, conversation and everyday action.
Leadership implementation support
Guidance and resources to introduce the programme, maintain momentum and support follow-up.
Individual completion certificates
Clear confirmation that each participating member of staff has completed the programme.
THE LEARNING JOURNEY
Five connected chapters.
One shared foundation.
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Becoming One Safe Adult
The foundations of safe-adult relationships and the patterns through which children experience consistency, approachability and connection.
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Understanding Trauma in the Classroom
How stress and adversity can influence relationships, learning and everyday school interactions.
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The Real Impact of Trauma
Looking beyond what is immediately visible and considering what may sit beneath a child’s presentation.
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Rethinking Attendance
Exploring attendance through relationships, belonging, safety and participation, alongside existing systems and responsibilities.
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Carrying Less
Helping staff reflect, maintain professional boundaries and manage the emotional demands of relational work.
DESIGNED TO LAST BEYOND COMPLETION
Not delivered once and forgotten.
Twelve months’ access gives schools time to introduce the learning properly, include colleagues who miss a training day, support new starters and revisit key ideas.
Leaders can use the accompanying resources to continue professional conversations and connect the programme with existing attendance, inclusion, behaviour, safeguarding and wellbeing priorities.
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Introduce
Set the purpose and create a shared starting point.
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Learn flexibly
Staff complete five focused chapters around school commitments.
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Revisit and embed
Use leadership resources and practical tools across the access year.
WHAT STAFF TOLD US
Practical, credible and immediately useful.
“Once I focused on relationships, behaviour, attendance and engagement improved. I spend less time firefighting now and more time teaching.”
Secondary school maths teacher
“I feel more empowered now. My biggest takeaway is that a relational approach is about building consequences that make sense and improving consistency.”
Secondary school assistant headteacher
“One Safe Adult has to be one of the most valuable and enjoyable courses I have been on.”
Primary learning support assistant · 25+ years’ experience
SIMPLE WHOLE-SCHOOL LICENSING
Choose the licence that fits your staff team.
No VAT is currently charged. Larger organisational and multi-school requirements can be discussed separately.
Schools can pay by invoice and purchase order. Questions first? Email info@onesafeadult.co.uk.
Considering the programme within your inclusion strategy?
INCLUSIVE MAINSTREAM FUND
DfE guidance includes specified training costs and evidence-based professional development among examples of how schools may use their allocation.
Funding is not automatic. Schools and trusts should check their allocation, grant conditions and whether the programme fits their evidence-led inclusion strategy before purchasing.
CLEAR SCOPE
What the programme is and what it is not.
It is
Whole-school, practical, relationship-centred, evidence-informed and designed for the realities of school life.
It is not
A replacement for safeguarding, SEND provision, attendance systems or specialist training. It is not clinical training or a one-off motivational INSET.