Virtual School Training

Championing education for children in care – designated teachers training

Coventry Virtual School Designated Teacher training is delivered by a team of education professionals with strong backgrounds as qualified teachers. Their experience spans across primary and secondary education, school leadership in both mainstream and specialist SEMH settings, as well as key roles such as SENCOs and Designated Teachers. This depth of expertise ensures our training is practical, relevant, and rooted in real-world school experience. Our aim is to support schools in fulfilling their statutory duty to promote and support the education of children in care, helping them to achieve positive educational outcomes.

Training is delivered both face to face and as a pre-recorded video, allowing designated teachers the opportunity to access the training as often as needed.

Flourish

In addition to our Designated Teacher training offer, Coventry Virtual School is proud to partner with Flourish Training to provide all of our schools with one fully funded licence, giving them access to a wide range of education-specific training designed to support staff working with vulnerable children and young people.

Each licence grants access to 41 high-quality, online courses through Flourish’s learning platform: Flourish Education Bundle.

About the training

Flourish offers trauma-informed training developed by subject matter experts in education. Their person-centred, interactive courses are designed to equip school staff with practical tools and strategies to create positive, inclusive learning environments where vulnerable children can feel safe, supported, and ready to thrive.

What’s included

Your licence provides access to 41 courses, including:

• ADHD Awareness
• Adoption, Post-Permanence and the Role of Schools
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Child-on-Child Abuse
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Communicating with Children and Young People
• Conduct Disorder
• County Lines
• Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and Dyscalculia
• Emotion Coaching
• Emotionally Based School Avoidance
• Equality and Diversity – An Introduction
• Female Genital Mutilation – An Introduction
• Fire Prevention and Safety – An Introduction
• Fire Safety Awareness
• First Aid Refresher
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Food Hygiene – An Introduction
• GDPR – An Introduction
• Harmful Sexual Behaviours
• Health and Safety – An Introduction
• Impulsive Behaviour
• Introduction to Mindfulness
• Introduction to Reflective Practice
• Managing Challenging Behaviour
• Online Safety and Cyberbullying
• Paediatric First Aid Refresher
• Promoting the Achievement of Looked After Children in Education
• Radicalisation
• Safeguarding – An Introduction
• Self-Harming Behaviours
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• SEND – Code of Practice
• Suicide Awareness and Prevention
• Supporting Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children
• Supporting Pupils with Mental Health Difficulties
• Supporting Pupils with Unmet Attachment Needs
• The Role of the Designated Teacher
• Transitions in Education
• Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Young People

How to register

To create your account or find out more, please get in touch via Contact - Flourish