Early Help – Supporting Families
Level One – Safeguarding for all
This support is available for all children in the academy
Level Two – Early Help
This support is accessed via our internal referral system
Level Three – External Support and Children’s Services
This support is accessed via a referral to external agencies
Tutor Support
All of our students are assigned a tutor when they arrive at the Academy. The form tutor is an essential link between school and home, and often the first port of call if a student or parent/carer has a query or concern. Tutors will support students with homework, uniform, equipment and organisation, as well as providing emotional support if they feel worried or overwhelmed.
Form tutors can be contacted via the school office: office@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide
CLICK: https://www.papyrus-uk.org/
Virtual Family Hub
Worcestershire offers free online Solihull Approach parenting courses for parents, carers, and grandparents of children from pregnancy to teenage years. You can access these courses by visiting the Starting Well Partnership website or the Virtual Family Hub
When signing up, use the access code PARENTSROCK to unlock the online resources, which cover topics like child development, sleep, temper tantrums, and building positive relationships.
Kooth
Kooth is a free online service that offers emotional and mental health support for children and young people. When you sign up you can choose an avatar, which helps to keep you safe and anonymous. You can have a “drop-in” chat with a counsellor or therapist or book a one-to-one session.
Kooth’s counsellors and therapists are available until 10pm, 365 days a year. You can talk to other young people anonymously on the forums whenever you like, and keep an online journal. Subscribing to Kooth means you can read its online magazine and maybe even write for it. You can also use Kooth to set goals with your online counsellor or therapist and keep a record of how you are doing. Evidence suggests that Kooth can help children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological problems.
Kooth is suitable for children and young people aged 11 to 19 (25 in some areas). It can help with lots of different problems, including family problems, eating disorders, loneliness, bullying, anxiety and depression.
RSHE Programme
We have created a new curriculum for RSHE following guidance from the DfE. RSHE will focus on three core themes:
- Health and wellbeing
- Relationships
- Living in the wider world
We want our students to be happy, healthy and well-rounded and the changes to RSHE will support them on this journey.
Attendance Support
We have a designated attendance Team that will help and support all aspects of attendance. The team will signpost parents to agencies that can off individual support to maximise attendance for all.
College Leader Support
Each college has a designated College Leader. This role is to support students in a variety of ways through their educational journey and to provide pastoral care.
College Leaders can be contacted via the school office: office@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Papyrus
PAPYRUS is the national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide. Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling.
Helpline: 0800 068 4141.
College Leader Support
Each college has a designated College Leader. This role is to support students in a variety of ways through their educational journey and to provide pastoral care.
College Leaders can be contacted via the school office: office@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Counsellors
We currently employ a counsellor part time.
Referrals to the school counsellor are made through College Leaders and Safeguarding Team.
SEN Support
Our objective is to support and equip students with additional needs to fulfil their academic and personal potential, ensuring they are given equal opportunities, enabling and encouraging them to feel valued members of our community.
Any parents that have children that may be suffering with their mental health are advised to gain advice from the following website; https://youngminds.org.uk/
Thrive
Thrive helps us to check children’s readiness to learn, to identify any gaps and then plan to meet them. Through doing so, we will be able to make sure that all of our pupils have what they need to make the best possible progress in their learning
What does it take to develop healthy, happy, confident children who are ready and open to learning? Recent advances in neuroscience, attachment theory and child development have provided some of the answers to this question.
The Thrive Approach draws on insights from these fields to provide a powerful way of working with children and young people that supports optimal social and emotional development. In addition, the Approach can equip you to work in a targeted way with children and young people who may have struggled with difficult life events to help them re-engage with life and learning. Ms Hardy is our qualified Thrive practitioner.
Mentor link
Referrals to Mentor Link can be arranged through College Leaders and Safeguarding Team.
SEN Support
Our objective is to support and equip students with additional needs to fulfil their academic and personal potential, ensuring they are given equal opportunities, enabling and encouraging them to feel valued members of the Academy Community.
We have a highly experienced and qualified body of staff who specialise in a range of additional needs. Our aim is to ensure not only academic progress for all our students, but also to support their social and emotional well-being.
We encourage parents of ASD children to seek help through the following websites; https://www.autismlinks.co.uk/ https://www.aspie.org.uk/
Any parents that have children that may be suffering with their mental health are advised to gain advice from the following website; https://youngminds.org.uk/
Our department has regular access to our own educational psychologist and speech and language therapist. We have an excellent relationship with external agencies and work in close collaboration to ensure there is a successful team around the child.
Swanswell
Swanswell are a drug and alcohol support service. They are a charity empowering people to live healthy, safe and happy lives. The school can make a referral for our students but they can also be contacted by telephone on 0300 303 8200 or by email at worcsadmin@swanswell.org
Access to services related to additions
Referrals can be arranged through the Safeguarding Team. safeguarding@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Bereavement Support
Referrals can be arranged through the Safeguarding Team. safeguarding@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Victim Support
Referrals can be arranged through the Safeguarding Team. safeguarding@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk
Early help family support
The Early Help service provides integrated support to children, young people and their families. The service is there to offer practical advice, support and direct case work to prevent issues escalating and requiring statutory intervention.
https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/council-services/childrens-social-care/early-help-family-support
Worcestershire Safeguarding
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