Head of Secondary School Development, Place2Be

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Tom Rose

About Place2BeWho we are

• National award-winning charity established in 1994, dedicated to supporting schools to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing

What we do

• School-based counselling services for children aged 4-14

• Consultation and advice for parents, carers and school staff

• Training and capacity building for all professionals working with children

Where we work

• 22 areas across the UK, in partnership with 257 schools providing direct services accessible to over 105,000 children

Context of mental health in the UK today In society• Over 1 million children and young people in the UK have a mental

health problem: nearly half drop out of full time education by age 15

• Over 90% of young offenders had a mental health problem in childhood

• 1 in 6 adults have a mental health problem, and for the majority the early symptoms we present and treatable before the age of 14

In schools

• The average minimum waiting time for an initial appointment with local CAMHS service is now 12 weeks

• The 2014 SEND Code of Practice has a new focus on social, mental and emotional health replacing social, emotional and behavioural development

• The recently released DFE Blueprint on Counselling in Schools lays out best practice for schools

Key elements of a whole school approach to mental health & wellbeing

• Appropriate capacity to support wide range of student needs through trusted & de-stigmatising interventions

• Access to clinical expertise to provide and/or supervise therapeutic interventions for children

• Access to staff support around safeguarding, SEND, working with parents and working with other agencies

• Putting in place robust evaluation methodology to assess improvement to children and families’ emotional wellbeing and learning

Overview of a whole school approach

Students• Open Access Drop-in

Services• Targeted 1:1 therapeutic

work• Group & Class work

Staff• Mental health

dimension to inclusion panels/ reviews

• Drop-in consultation for all staff / CPD

• Safeguarding / CP support

Parents• Engagement/

Consent around 1:1 work

• Signposting/ delivering adult mental health support

Centralised Co-ordination