School Based Social Work Support
School-based social work services
We appreciate schools have the responsibility of looking after the safety and emotional wellbeing of children, identifying safeguarding concerns and providing support to children and their families in different circumstance.
- However, do school staff have the appropriate skills, experience, and time in their teaching day to manage all the challenging issues that children may bring with them to school?
- Does responding to child protection and safeguarding issues allow teaching staff to focus on providing children with good quality education and affording children the opportunity to reach their full academic potential?
- Do school staff have the right support or advice from a social work expert when confronted with situations affecting children outside of school
We will provide a social worker to be based within the school one day per week for consultation, advice, and collaborative working with children and families. This is crucial in strengthening the emotional resilience of school staff, reducing their workload, and allowing them to focus on teaching children. The school will decide what tasks/activities they wish the social worker to provide such as:
- Provide advice and consultancy to school staff on issues including the following:
- Mental health of children
- Mental health of adults
- Domestic abuse in families
- Parental drug and alcohol misuse
- Child drug and alcohol misuse
- Antisocial behaviour
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Gangs/County Lines
- Conducting meetings with parents to discuss non-educational issues relating to their child.
- Observing children in the classroom
- Discussions with children, with a parent’s consent as well as undertaking direct work to elicit their wishes and feelings and explore their lived experiences at home and in the community
- Attendance at Social Care meetings – child protection conferences, core group meetings, Child in Need meetings.
- Help schools to access community resources to support children.
- Advise and support around contextual safeguarding (CSE/CE, gangs, county lines)
We also offer bespoke training packages to support schools in effectively executing their safeguarding role. Such training include:
- Online safety and cyber bullying
- Gangs, county lines and contextual safeguarding
- Child sexual exploitation and criminal exploitation
- FGM, forced marriage and honour-based violence
- Violence against women and girls
- Domestic violence and abuse
- Early help assessments
- Safeguarding children and referrals to local authorities
- Framework for the assessment of children in need and their families
- Direct work with children and families
- Supporting children with speech, language and learning difficulties
Contact Us
- 86-90, Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
- 0333 7722 933
- info@leverageservices.co.uk
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