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ST MARGARET WARD CATHOLIC ACADEMY
The Inclusion Team Policy and Procedure
September 2017
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The Inclusion Team Policy and Procedure
Vision
Our vision is to encourage pupils to be self aware, raise their self esteem and support them in realising their full potential in both their academic ability and social behaviour.
Purpose
The Inclusion Team aims to promote and support the social, emotional, spiritual and academic needs of an increasing number of vulnerable students and their families. The team’s focus is on taking a holistic approach to each child, treating them as an individual.
Introduction
The team consists of a range of staff who all have specific roles and responsibilities as outlined in the Staff Handbook 2017 . All of the team possess a wide and varied range of qualifications, training and experience in different areas to meet the varied and complex needs of the students in our care. There are members of the Team work with allocated year groups.
The Services which the Inclusion Team provide are:
To be able to carry out any of the above services, especially issues that are of a delicate, more personal and intrusive nature, requires a relationship between parties to be formed and an element of trust to be built. If this does not occur then the outcomes and impact of the work we complete are not likely to be effective and will be unsuccessful.
It is vital that the team are honest, remain professional at all times, acting as a positive role model and only give advice that we are qualified to do so. If not, the matter needs to be referred to a member of the SLT or the relevant external agency. If this is the case and advice is needed from elsewhere then the student needs to be informed that this information has to be passed on, explaining the reason why.
Depending on the students needs, this will depend on the length of the process and intensity of the work that has to be carried out.
The Additional Provision Process
A referral can be made by any member of staff within the school who has concerns about a student, a self-referral, parent/guardian or external agency. They will do this by discussing the student within the year staff. The information will then be discussed by the relevant leader or line manager. The students specific needs will decide what intervention will be made available to them. These areas may include:
There are occasions when pupils require immediate medical advice re. sensitive issues. The Inclusion Team can not promise complete confidentiality on any issue and make this clear to the students from the start.
Pupils are told that if they wish to discuss an urgent medical matter they should make an appointment with the school nurse and the Health and Well Being Manager will support this.
If students insist on passing on sensitive information or any other safeguarding or child protection concern this information has to be passed on to Mrs Pritchard as Designated Child Protection Officer,Mr Smith or Mrs Holdcroft. This is explained to pupils.
Measuring the Impact of the Inclusion Team
There are many ways in which the impact of the Inclusion Team is measured, to decide whether the service is successful in what it does and what it sets out to achieve. These are as follows:
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