About Emotionally Friendly Settings

• Are you struggling to know how best to support mental and emotional health in children and young people?
• Do you wish there was someone to support you to develop your practice?
• Do you need help to show your staff that they matter too?
• Are you looking for help identifying evidence based interventions to use with a child or young person?
• Are you finding it hard to evidence outcomes for a child or young person?

Emotionally Friendly Settings will help you to assess and enhance emotional health and well-being in your individual setting  through an established assess, plan, do and review approach that will revolutionise your setting’s approach to emotional and mental health.

We will support you to:

• identify your setting’s strengths and weaknesses and help you action plan your next steps
• raise awareness of the importance of emotional health for children and young people by providing whole setting awareness raising sessions
• improve practice by giving you access to our manual which is full of evidence based interventions and practice for you to implement in your setting
• evidence the impact of interventions that you use

In implementing Emotionally Friendly Settings, you’ll actively see:

• A clear response across the entire school to improve children and young people’s, and staff well-being
• Greater skills and expertise of all staff to meet children and young people’s needs and help them to achieve their potential
• Confidence in staff knowing that they feel secure in using the best available programmes and interventions.
• Teachers enthusiastically applying practical, proven strategies to improve behaviour and well-being across the school
• Staff being able to clearly demonstrate excellent practice based on the best available approaches
• A shared response with a network of good practice and support

Then, when you are ready, you can apply to be accredited as an Emotionally Friendly School. This will not only recognise the value of your progress and the quality of your setting,  but also inspire you towards continued and sustained improvement.

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