This information may be appropriate for primary and/or secondary pupils, depending on their age, stage, and individual needs.
Websites
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS) offers support for Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, including services available in Oxfordshire.
Self-help resources
- Anna Freud –wellbeing measurement for school staff
- ELSA Information Leaflet (pdf format, 500KB)
- ELSA Parent Information Leaflet (pdf format, 151KB)
- EPS guidelines for working with children who have a family member in prison (pdf format, 300KB)
- Workbook to help transition from year six
- Guidelines to support with self harm
- EPS Supporting Refugees Guidance (pdf format, 80KB)
- Disordered eating
- Inclusive support series – primary
- Inclusive support series - secondary
- 5 Steps to Mental Health and Wellbeing: a free, evidence-based framework to help you develop a whole-school or college approach to mental health.
- Classroom wellbeing toolkit | Anna Freud
- Let's talk about anxiety: animation and teacher toolkit
Oxfordshire child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS)
- Services they can provide
- Good advice about mental health and Self-help resources
- Resources for parents and carers
- Mental health helpline
Specific topics
Eating disorders
- Advice for parents and carers of young people with eating disorders
- PEACE pathway - a pathway for eating disorders and autism developed from clinical experience
- PEACE pathway for professionals
- Reasonable Adjustment
Training
The Virtual School (pdf format, 200KB) delivers training. It offers support for a range of partners, including:
- education staff (primarily Designated Teachers)
- social care staff
- parents/carers - birth parent(s), foster carer(s), special guardian(s), adoptive parent(s) and children's home keyworker(s).
Specialist support in school
Educational psychology service
- bespoke training for schools and settings.
- joint problem-solving/psychological consultation around a specific case or issue.
- whole class /whole school interventions
Find out more about what is available on the Educational Psychology Service.
- Eating disorders
- Inpatient service (Highfield Unit)
- Outreach Service (OSCA)
- CAMHS Learning Disability Service
- Services for high risk young people
- School In-Reach Team (SIR)
- Mental Health Support Team OH MHST - Information booklet for schools.pdf
- Thames Valley Link Programme (TVLP) The TVLP has been established to provide extra support to children and young people who are often described as having ‘complex needs’.