What the Behaviour Support Team does

The Behaviour Support Team (BST) provides different schools across Worcestershire advice and support for pupils with a wide range of needs, particulary those whom behavioural difficulties are a barrier to their learning and achievement.

The Behaviour Support staff work closely with a wide range of professionals including other specialist support teachers and teaching assistants who both work with educational psychologists.

BST staff support pupils with a range of emotional and/or behaviourial difficulties within mainstream school settings and in six short stay schools across the county.

Principles of Behaviour Support

• Support for schools in the inclusion of pupils in mainstream education wherever possible.
• Intervention at the earliest opportunity, to enable pupils to access a full mainstream curriculum and achieve their potential.
• The provisions of a flexible range of support following a thorough assessment of need.
• Planned support for the reintegration of excluded pupils back into mainstream or special schools, or colleges.
• Training for mainstream school staff in embracing the principles of inclusive education.

Worcestershire Behaviour Support provision has four main purposes

• To provide a full time education for permanently excluded pupils, and those with extreme vulnerabilities.
• To provide a base from which BST staff operate a support for schools.
• As part of the managed moves process, to provide a structured, safe environment within which a clear assessment and analysis of pupil's needs can be made in order to effect a positive change in behaviour and plan and design a successful reintegration programme back into school.
• To offer off site support for pupils with very challenging behaviour as part of a pupil's Pastoral Support Plan when all other intervention strategies have proved unsuccessful.