What We Do

The Children and Young People’s Plan

All Service activities relate to priorities identified in the Children and Young People’s Plan and the Targeted Services Strategic Plan.

Service Development Plan 2009 - 2010

The Service Development Plan identifies specific areas that we will focus on in the coming year. These may be new areas of work or extending existing aspects of our work. The strategic aims for our work this year are:

Be Healthy

Lead and implement the development of TaMHS project in participating schools
Work with Locality Co-ordinators and Specialist CAMHS
Provide direct psychological interventions on behalf of individual CYPs at levels 2b and 3 of the Windscreen

Stay Safe

Develop support mechanisms to reduce bullying of the disabled - initially those with an ASD
Provide support to individual schools in response to an identified need

Enjoy and Achieve

Participate in Service review and implement outcomes
Provide training, coaching and mentoring to school staff e.g. contribute to the roll out of the ASD IDP
Develop EPS presence in Children’s Centres
Review use of CAF as a mechanism for requesting EPS involvement

Making a Positive Contribution

Work to improve parenting
Delivering Webster Stratton programmes to families and schools
Family support and raising awareness in schools to the needs of families with a member in prison
Positive psychology approaches to raising happy children
Promoting the concept of listening schools responsive to CYPs concerns and issues

Economic Well-being

Improving outcomes for KS4 Excluded students

Ongoing Areas of Work

In addition to the areas we identify for particular development each year, a number of activities continue to form the bulk of the day-to-day work of the Service. These activities are included in the brief descriptions of each of the teams within the Service, in the ‘How we work’ section of this guide.

Who We Are | How We Work

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