September

Wider learning activity:

FEELING SAFE & World Suicide Prevention Day

Feeling Safe in Training

Here at B-Skill, feeling safe as a learner is our primary focus.  Our aim is to make our centres and training sessions as inclusive and friendly as possible – providing an environment that promotes a trusting, motivational, progressive and safe place for everyone to work and learn.

 

With this in mind, we have a Safeguarding Hotline which goes direct to staff members who can help you if you feel you need advice, support or guidance in relation to safeguarding issues.  Furthermore, our staff are there to help if you should you need it – or just to chat about issues you may be currently facing.

Additionally, whether you are classroom based or not, our staff are always promoting ways to stay safe, whether this is on-line, in class or work and in our every days activities.

Ready For A Challenge?

Every staff member at B-Skill needs to know that you, as a learner, knows what feeling safe looks and feels like.  Therefore, we have a couple of challenges for you to undertake – it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes and will involve you carrying out some independent research.

Challenge 1

Pick a  vulnerability you can see from the poster and research its meaning – try and pick one that you don’t understand or have never heard of before.  Carry out some research and try and gain a fuller understanding of what this vulnerability means, how (and why) it happens and who it can affect.

Just take a few notes and when you next meet up with your coach, tell them what you have discovered.  What do you know now that you didn’t before.

Challenge 2

Have you felt safe whilst learning with B-Skill – we’d want to hear.

We have created a very short questionnaire to ask for your thoughts.  The questionnaire is confidential and will only be used by B-Skill to improve the safety and experience of all present and future learners and staff.

To access our survey, please Click Here.

 

For September we are focusing on suicide prevention.

In 2019, a total of 5691 suicides were registered in England and Wales, equating to 11 deaths per 100,000. Close to three quarters of registered deaths in 2019 were among men (4,303 deaths), which follows a consistent trend back to the mid1990s.

Males aged from 45 to 49 years had the highest agespecific suicide rate at 25.5 deaths per 100,000. For females, the age group with the highest rate was 50 to 54 years at 7.4 deaths per 100,000.

Suicide is preventable, it isn’t inevitable.

Please watch this short video relating to this topic. Although focused around the Suffolk area, the message is universal.

I’ve added a short activity and a ‘Where to Get Help’ Section at the end of this page.

Suicide Prevention: ‘Where to get help’ and Activity

Activity

Visit the following website and discover the myths around suicide. Take notes and prepare to discuss some of these myths with your tutor/coach.

Click here.

Where To Get Help

Samaritans –for everyone

https://www.samaritans.org

Call: 116 123

Email jo@samaritans.org

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

Call: 0800 58 58 58 –5pm to midnight every day

https://www.thecalmzone.net/help/webchat/-chat page from 5pm-Midnight

Papyrus –for people under 35

Call: 0800 068 41 41 –9am to midnight every day

Text: 07860 039967

Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org

Childline –for children and young people under 19

Call: 0800 1111

The number will not show up on your phone bill