{"id":936,"date":"2015-01-15T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/?p=936"},"modified":"2015-07-22T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:20:59","slug":"jam-update-from-throughout-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/2015\/01\/15\/jam-update-from-throughout-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Jam update from throughout the day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Shannon and Laura here!<\/strong> We are going to be talking a bit about today’s JAM to let you guys know how today went and what went down!<\/p>\n

So we started setting up at 9.30\u00a0to begin at 10am so that people had a little time to settle into their groups. Gayle and Fiona were today’s hosts and great ones at that considering it’s their first JAM. So the groups had been given some ice- breakers, oh how we love them (luckily we didn’t have to join in). We then had the opportunity to listen to a few inspirational speakers who spoke about their experiences and why they feel that relationships truly do matter for both young people and their workers.<\/p>\n

After a quick refreshment break for some tea and coffee, the groups were given an hour for an ‘understand’ session, to give them time to talk about their chosen barriers and try and understand them from different perspectives. Within the next hour the groups had to take some ideas and think about one that they would take to the ‘create’ session. By this point people seemed a bit more settled and had a little more emotion on their faces.<\/p>\n

So now we need to write about the different sessions from throughout the day and what the different teams came up with.<\/p>\n

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1. Falkirk Council will be the first group that we will talk about <\/strong>and what was discussed and what the outcome was that they came up with. The barrier that they had was ‘Needing Permission’ and they spoke about how young people feel that there was not enough love. One of the barriers they spoke about within their group was fear and how some workers\/carers feel like they don’t know how to express their professional love that they have for young people as there is the big issue of accusations and also misperceptions. They also had a discussion about what was acceptable and the conclusion that they came up with was to use SSSC codes of practice of what is a professional relationship and this focuses on scandals, accusations etc. They then went on to talk about the ‘create’ session and a young person’s statement was “I want to be able to keep in touch with the staff I want and for that to be ok” . They came up with certain ways of keeping the relationship after leaving care and these were:<\/p>\n