Management Information Sheet
Self Review Tool - Mental Health and Wellbeing
The Self-Review Tool is for schools to review arrangements for identification of and support for students in terms of mental health & wellbeing.
There is strong commitment from Headteachers in Norfolk to address the mental health and well-being needs of our children and young people. One in ten young people has some form of diagnosable mental health condition and we know that children with a mental health problem face unequal chances in their lives, particularly where childhood mental health issues continue into adulthood.
There is clear evidence that schools can, and do, play a vital role in identifying mental health needs at an early stage, referring young people to specialist support and working jointly with others to support young people experiencing problems. The government Green Paper: Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision, sets out how it will 'put schools and colleges at the heart of our efforts to intervene early and prevent problems escalating'.
Schools already do a lot to promote positive mental health. This self-review tool provides a guide to help learning settings to identify and support students with their mental health & wellbeing, and to know what constitutes excellent practice. The review is not a tool for judgement and it does not provide an exhaustive checklist of things everyone and every setting should be doing because every setting, and every child, is different.
It has been designed to be used as a development tool where a setting can identify areas of success and build upon them; see areas for development and plan improvement. The responses will also be used to build a bank of evidence and good practice.
For the purposes of this self-review good mental health is defined as –
| a state of well-being in which an individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. |
The self-review has been co-produced with Educate Norfolk.
Please complete the self-review by 8 December 2018.
If you have any questions or queries, please contact :
Karin Porter Participation & Transition Strategy Manager
Email: karin.porter@norfolk.gov.uk
or
Sam Derbyshire Education & Training Officer
Email: sam.derbyshire@norfolk.gov.uk