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As
an organisation, why engage our services?
At some point
during secondary education, most students have need of support
for a wide ranging variety of issues.
• We can work alongside you to create a bespoke service
that fits your needs.
• Because we keep overheads to a minimum, you get value
for money.
• We have considerable experience of a service working in
schools and similar organisations, allowing us to function with
minimal disruption to normal day to day working practices.
• There is preliminary evidence to suggest that pupils involved
have improved attendance and reduced exclusion rates.
• Even without such empirical data head-teachers who have
employed our services express a belief that results are tangible
for those pupils worked with, and no institution has reduced its
hours. They have either maintained their hours or sought to increase
them.
• An extensive working knowledge of external support agencies
means that when young people need information, advice or support
in addition to their counselling it is possible to engage the
appropriate agency.
• No faceless, nameless bureaucracy – you have immediate
contact with the people who run it. As part of our initial discussions
with us you are given a contact telephone number to use should
you to want to talk about any aspect of our services.
• At all times the actions of our counsellors with regards
to Child Protection issues will be dictated to by your institutions
Child Protection officer.
• Child Protection is central to our work and is continually
monitored and supervised.
• All of the institutions we have worked with have noticed
unexpected benefits from the occasional advocacy role that has
grown from the relationship between the young person and the counsellor.
This has allowed mediation between young people and staff and
/ or young people and parents to occur.
• The DFES is currently developing a strategy for promoting
emotional literacy in schools ( which they call social and emotional
competence) and will shortly be preparing guidance on the importance
of this work for learning, well being and behaviour. Our organisation
is a member of Antidote, the campaign for emotional literacy,
who are members of the Practitioners Group, that has been set
up to move the strategy forward. We can help you to formulate
policy and practice in this inevitable development for schools,
which may extend beyond the counselling of young people into areas
such as: - INSET training for staff, PSHE lessons, drop-in &
after school sessions and counselling / non line management supervision
for staff. [ This is strongly recommended for any professionals
working substantial hours in a one to one situation with young
people. ]
• Our counselling service is fundamentally person centred,
focussing primarily on the therapeutic nature of positive relationship
building. However in recognition of the needs of young people
and the demands of their environment we frequently use cognitive
techniques as these often speed up the process of personal development.
• We cater our service to your environment, negotiating
use of rooms, referral procedures, removal from classes, review
frequency and style, working times and duration, and Child Protection
liaison.
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