Article: Support for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties Article Body If your child has behavioural, emotional or social difficulties that are causing you concern, you should discuss these with your childs class teacher, special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator or headteacher. They may want to develop an individual behaviour management plan for your child and involve other services such as an educational psychologist or the Behaviour Support Service. If any educational psychologist is involved, they may observe your child at school and sometimes at home, talk to your child about school and home life and use activities to assess your childs progress and general abilities. The Behaviour Support Service works proactively to support children aged four to16 with challenging behaviour or emotional and social difficulties, providing them with integrated care pathways. Some teams work particularly on issues arising when children transfer from one school to another. Behaviour Support Service can help: children who are not attending school or who have been excluded children and families struggling with change, such as parental separation or divorce, or bereavement children who are withdrawn children experiencing bullying children who are engaged in bullying behaviour. The service supports these children by: working with other teams/services involved to give advice and guidance providing early intervention and preventative work after mainstream school has exhausted all strategies providing early intervention and preventative work using support strategies to enhance self-esteem and changing behaviour promoting the development of positive learning environments working with programmes like SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning), therapeutic interventions, and EPIC (extended play in classrooms). The service offers: therapeutic sessions for children and families parenting programmes training and support for staff working in schools. Some of these programmes require additional funding by schools and agencies. Specific programmes for children focus on: developing self esteem social skills loss/separation anxiety. How to access the service Referrals can be made by the child's school or other agencies. The child's care is then discussed by a multi-agency team of professionals. If the case is accepted an assessment either at home and /or in school will be completed or the case will be signposted to an appropriate agency. Following assessment, a programme of intervention/support will be planned for the child and delivered in close consultation with parents/carers and other key players. If you would like more information, please contact your child's school. Professional callers can contact the Springwell Community School and Wider Borough Services directly. Useful documents Behaviour Support Service Referral Form Fair Access Panel Meeting Protocol Fair Access Panel Referral Form TACT Brochure Behaviour Support Service Counselling Referral Model School Behaviour Policy National Programme for Specialist Leaders in Behaviour (NPSLB) Flyer Team Teach Flyer Parenting Contracts Protocol Related links Teachernet - behaviour and attendance Teachernet - behaviour challenge How to contact us Springwell Community School and Wider Borough Services St Helens Boulevard Carlton Road Barnsley S71 2AY Telephone: 01226 291133 Out of hours: 07875766850 Website: www.springwellcommunityschool.co.uk Opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm