This toolbox is a practical guide for professionals working with young people in mental health programming. It is designed to help build foundational knowledge on how to engage young people meaningfully, offering strategies, tools, and resources to support you along...
Ethos and Culture
Understanding communication
“Effective communication in an educational environment serves not only as a tool to convey information, but also as a means to inspire, motivate and better coordinate school activities. Through clear and open communication, principals and teachers can ensure each team...
Communicating in educational settings
Pupil Voice – Effective communication with students/learners: Feedback from pupils with regards to teachers can be hard to come across without biased, so where should you start? We have gathered some evidence-based feedback on what students and pupils have identified...
Ethos and Culture Toolkit
Developing a positive ethos and culture within your setting will help to develop good relationships and positive behaviour within the classroom, playground and wider community. You may find it useful to undertake a 180 or 360 degree review relating to your leadership...
Critical incidents
The UK Trauma Council have released guidance on what schools, colleges or educational settings can do in the event of a potentially traumatic incident that has affected all or most of an educational community. Their resource bank includes: Guidance Example policies...
Mental Health Resource Quality Assessment
The Mental Health Resource Quality Assessment was developed by Richard Daniel Curtis in response to a problem - how do people tell the suitability of a mental health resource/intervention for a purpose? Using the important questions to consider Richard developed a...
Role Stress Risk Assessment
There are certain roles that are at more risk of emotional harm within staff teams. Likewise there are events in people's lives that affect their coping or resilience, making them more at risk of emotional harm for a short or longer period. The role stress risk...