Health and Wellbeing
How Mentally Healthy is Your Alternative Provision Setting? Carrying out an Audit
Find out how well your alternative provision looks after the mental health of pupils, staff and families, and what to fix first.
- 50 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Audit your setting's mental health provision across four areas
- RAG rate each area and pick actions you can start straight away
- Review induction so staff understand each pupil's background and needs
- Put staff wellbeing on the agenda with supervision, briefings and open-door time
- Build regular, positive contact with parents and carers
About this course
Nearly two thirds of pupils in alternative provision have social, emotional and mental health needs as their main SEND need. If mental health is your responsibility in an AP setting, you need an honest picture of where you're strong and where you're not.
This session gives you an audit to work through in four areas: your whole-setting approach, staff wellbeing, support for pupils, and work with parents and carers. Each comes with questions to ask yourself (is there a senior mental health lead? does your induction tell staff enough about a pupil's background?) and a red, amber or green rating, so you can see at a glance what needs attention.
It's led by an alternative provision leader who has also run an independent AP, so the suggested actions suit small teams: one-page pupil profiles, a daily message home, a staff shout-out board.
- For mental health leads, middle leaders and senior leaders. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.
Recording
- 50 min
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