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With 20+ year's experience, I specialise in assisting schools and settings to understand and support pupils experiencing significant, substantive or ongoing Social, Emotional, Behavioural and Wellbeing Needs, embedding Trauma Informed and Nurturing Practice and Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Care and Vulnerable Pupils.
I work with schools, settings and statutory services to ensure pupils needs are understood and supported in education.
Supporting pupils with Social, Behavioural, Emotional and Wellbeing Needs.
- confidential observation, consultation, impartial advice, support and signposting in relation to supporting individual pupils*;
- a solution focused approach to identifying, understanding supporting pupils needs and assisting school staff to implement evidence based reasonable adjustments, interventions and supports that promote the best interests of the child, as well as practical support and strategies to meet the needs of children and young people experiencing significant and substantive Social, Behavioural, Emotional and Wellbeing needs and signposting to ensure that they have access to relevant school-based services and supports.
-assistance to schools in the effective use of appropriate planning and assessment processes (including risk management and safety planning) to promote safeguarding, identify and prioritise presenting needs, document and evidence interventions, measure progress and record and report incidents or concerns.
-advice, support and training for practitioners to ensure they understand how having experienced trauma or adversity impacts on children’s ability to engage with education.
- wraparound support for staff teams to build capacity and promote the wellbeing of staff, pupils and the wider school community
- establishing (and coordinating) a multi-agency Team Around the Child. Coordinating multi agency support planning, recording and monitoring interventions. Timely information sharing between agencies and within schools which respects the agency of children and families. Ensuring teams have shared goals, set high ambitions for pupils and give practitioners the space and the tools to support pupils educational outcomes. Contributing to multi agency decision making that is in the best interest of the child.
COST - £50 per hour, invoiced to school monthly OR following agreed piece of work**. I am registered on I-proc
* Where support is in relation to an individual pupil, consent MUST be given by parent/carer
**Please note that all fees are payable at £50/hr spent carrying out this service. This is to include: direct contact, travel to/from the contact, telephone calls, emails, consultation with other professionals, action planning and review reading and evaluating information and report writing. Staff Training - pricing on request
I am registered on I-proc
Improving Educational Outcomes for children and young people who are vulnerable, in need or in care.
Experiencing trauma can have a profound impact on a child's sense of safety and belonging, their ability to navigate and sustain healthy relationships and their capacity for emotional awareness and emotional regulation. Behaviour is the language of trauma, children will show us before they tell us that they are in distress. In an attempt to survive, manage and make sense of their experiences these pupils may demonstrate a profound distrust in adults as well as highly activated stress responses resulting in risky and 'challenging' behaviours displayed at school. Pupils who are communicating distress and demonstrating high levels of significant and substantive need may present with a range of behaviours that have impact on their safety and wellbeing and the safety and wellbeing of the wider school community - navigating this unfamiliar ground can feel very overwhelming for schools.
With over 20 years of experience supporting pupils across KS1-KS4 with significant and substantive SBEW needs and their schools as well as 12 years leading a primary EOTAS provision, I am passionate about supporting improved outcomes for our most vulnerable pupils by offering a range of supports to schools and statutory services that reflect the best interests of the child ensuring improved outcomes for our most vulnerable pupils within education.