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Behaviour

Wirral’s Behaviour Support Plan provides an overview of the support that is available to vulnerable children and their families. This includes information about all the major agencies involved. Copies of the Behaviour Support Plan are available in all schools and the Children and Young People’s Department. The Plan also contains information on where parents themselves may seek advice and support.

Most children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties are able to continue their education within mainstream schools, though additional focused support and resources may be required to ensure that barriers to learning are minimised and that they remain fully included. Services from which schools can gain support include:

  • ADHD Specialist Teacher: Guidance and training offered to schools for children with attention difficulties. The ADHD Teacher works closely with the Child and Family Service (CAMHS)
  • Social and Communication Difficulties Team (hyperlink): Guidance and training offered to schools for children with social and communication difficulties.
  • Behaviour Improvement Programme (BiP): This is a national strategy for improving behaviour and attendance in schools. It involves four secondary schools, 18 primary schools, two special schools and Pupil Referral Unit. Support is offered to children and their families from the selected schools in the form of multi-agency Behaviour and Educational Support Teams (BEST); Safer Schools Partnership (Police in Schools); Lead Behaviour Professionals leading change within primary and secondary schools; new measures for tackling truancy and attendance issues.
  • Behaviour Support: offers guidance and training to schools to promote positive behaviour, teach the social emotional and behavioural skills that underpin positive behaviour, effective learning and managing challenging behaviour. Projects include Family Works and an Early Intervention Programme.
  • Educational Psychology Service: offers a consultative model to enable educational psychologists to provide advice at School Action Plus. This aims to prevent children’s behavioural difficulties escalating to a point where more specialist provision is necessary.
  • Education Social Welfare Service: projects that address difficulties of attendance and behaviour in individual schools.
  • Key Stage 3 Behaviour and Attendance Consultant: a national strategy that links closely with Behaviour Improvement Programme. Based at the Professional Excellence Centre (Telephone: 0151 346 6553).
  • LACES Team provides support for children who are in the care of the Local Authority Looked After Children.
  • Learning Mentors provide support to individual children within mainstream schools.
  • Children’s Fund and On Track e.g. Home Visiting Service delivered by the Catholic Children’s Society; Parent Support and Training delivered by Parentline Plus.
  • Outreach team from Gilbrook EBD Special School offers support and shares good practice with mainstream schools.
  • The outreach team from Kilgarth EBD Special School offers training to mainstream schools and support to individual children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

A small number of children whose special need requires the support of specialist provision available outside mainstream provision may attend a specialist school or unit. This provision includes:

  • Gilbrook: a primary special EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) school.
  • Kilgarth: a secondary single sex (boys) special EBD school.
  • New Solar School: this coeducational EBD school opened in September 2005 with 60 places for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
  • WASP (the Authority’s Pupil Referral Unit) offers support to children who have been, or are at risk of being, permanently excluded from a mainstream school.

Other children who experience, or are at risk of experiencing, social, emotional and behavioural difficulties may be:

  • Excluded pupils (permanent and fixed term)
  • Pupils at risk of permanent exclusion
  • Persistently disruptive pupils
  • Pupils involved in bullying others
  • Violent or abusive pupils
  • Pupils who are absent repeatedly without permission
  • School refusers and school phobics
  • Pupils with challenging behaviour (including that associated with learning difficulties)
  • Pupils on schools’ SEN registers for behavioural difficulties
  • Pupils with Statements of SEN for behavioural difficulties
  • Pupils who have committed criminal offences
  • Pupils with complex developmental disorders, e.g. Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or undiagnosed developmental disorders
  • Pupils with emotional difficulties
  • Looked After Children
  • Traveller children
  • Children on the Child Protection Register
  • Pupils with family difficulties
  • Pupils with significant trauma histories, such as refugees
  • Pupils with drug/alcohol related problems or those from drug/alcohol misusing families
  • Pupils with mental health problems
  • Pupils who are or have been bullied
  • Young carers
  • Teenage parents.

Our guidelines to protect children and develop their potential focus on four main areas:

  • Early Intervention and effective protection
  • Supporting parents and carers
  • Accountability and integration – locally, regionally and nationally workforce reform
  • Workforce reform

More detailed information about services for these children and our response to Every Child Matters is available from Special Education Support Service on (0151) 643 7070 or on the relevant web pages in this Directory.

Email: children@wirral.gov.uk

 

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