Education Inclusion and Access Services
Behaviour Management
Worcestershire County Council's
Positive Behaviour Team offer training, development and support
for anyone who works and cares for young people who demonstrate
challenging behaviour. Training enables staff and carers to be
calm, positive and purposeful in their approach and to have high
expectations of the participation and behaviour of pupils and young
people.
View or
download the Service Offer for this
service 
(221KB).
Education Welfare
Service
This service offers a range of comprehensive interventions to
secure improvements in regular school attendance. These range from
policy and school practice to home visits, parental contracts and
legal interventions. We offer trained and suitably supervised
Education Welfare Officers with experience in undertaking
specialist work within communities.
For further information schools and academies can view our
information
leaflet
Early Intervention Family Support
Our targeted teams provide early intervention,
preventative support, guidance and advice to parents and families
to help deal with issues and problems as soon as they emerge and to
strengthen home-school relationships.
Early intervention family support workers have a good
understanding of child development, family life and parenting and
help to increase the chances of young people and their families
achieving positive outcomes alongside preventing problems
escalating which reduces the need for future specialist
support.
Educational Psychology
Services
The Educational
Psychology Service delivers statutory and non-statutory
psychological services for children and young people 0 to 19 years,
within a range of community settings such as pre-school, school,
children's homes and centres. We provide advice ensuring the safety
and psychological needs of children are met, promoting a sense of
wellbeing, developing positive emotional health and helping
children and young people reach their potential.
Services include consultation and drop-ins, assessment and
intervention, delivery of training and workshops, project work,
workshop support for parents, coaching, mentoring and supervision
and also support for critical incidents. Our Educational
Psychologists have postgraduate qualifications at either Masters or
Doctoral level and are registered with the Health Profession's
Council (HPC).
Free School Meals
Worcestershire County Council's School Systems
team provide a comprehensive service in checking pupils'
eligibility for
free school meals. The service includes:
- Full administration of the application
process
- A one-stop-shop for parents and
carers
- Immediate decisions in most cases
- Cost effective use of central
administration
- Annual audit of eligibility to reduce
unnecessary expenditure
- Easily accessible, informed,
responsive advice.
View or download the Service
Offer for this service (Academies) (90KB)
Integrated services for looked after and
adopted children (ISL)
ISL have a proven track record of excellent
partnership working with all schools to promote and improve the
educational attainment and inclusion of looked after and adopted
children.
ISL provide specialist, direct work with
looked after children and young people focusing on their emotional
wellbeing, behaviour management and learning. ISL support
Designated Teachers and deliver training packages that focus on
attachment and trauma.
For further details schools can access our
pages for Integrated Services
for Looked After and Adopted Children (ISL).
Integrated specialist support service (ISSS)
Our experienced Integrated Specialist Support
Service can provide support and advice for schools, colleges and
academies specifically related to hearing impaired, visually
impaired and multi-sensory impaired children and young people, and
those with a diagnosis of Autism/Complex Communication Difficulties
or requiring Alternative and Augmentative Communication/Assistive
ICT.
Our teams also advise schools and academies on
the procedures to be followed when pupils are absent as a result of
medical needs and can provide education during recurrent or
prolonged absence from school, working closely with schools and
other professionals to ensure that pupils can continue to
achieve.
For further details schools can access our
pages for Integrated
Specialist Support Service (ISSS).
View or download the
Service Offer for ISSS Medical Education Service
The learning support team
The
Learning Support team is comprised
of specialist professionals skilled at working with pupils who have
a wide range of special educational and learning needs. We provide
an intervention service for pupils at School Action Plus, offering
assessment, advice, and models of good practice. Our service also
provides school based in-service training designed to meet
individual needs in the specialist areas of Dyslexia, Mathematics,
ICT, Language and Communication and Developmental Co-ordination
Difficulties (including Dyspraxia and motor skills
difficulties).
View or download the
Service Offer for this service (221KB)
Support, guidance and skills for young
people
Worcestershire County Council provides
advice, information and
guidance packages to meet the requirements of schools.
This includes leaflets and reference books about careers and jobs,
further and higher education courses, training opportunities and
qualifications. We also provide schools, colleges and academies
with careers guidance and information computer software.
Other education inclusion and access
services:
This page was last reviewed 21 March 2012 at 16:40.
The page is next due for review 17 September 2013.