Pastoral Support Programme
The Pastoral Support Programme (PSP) is a school based and co-ordinated intervention to help individual pupils to improve their social, emotional and behaviour skills. The PSP will act as a preventative measure for those pupils at risk of being excluded.
If the pupil has another plan then ideally the PSP should be integrated. Rather than set up a separate PSP for pupils with an IEP (Individual Education Plan), schools should ensure IEP’s for pupils at serious risk of being excluded reflect appropriate approaches, strategies and support to meet their additional needs.
A PSP should be set up for a pupil:
- Who has several fixed exclusions that may be leading to a permanent exclusion.
- Who is identified as being at risk of failure at school through the feeling of being alienated from other people.
- Where the situation is complex and a range of agencies are needed to support children and young people.
The PSP should:
- use information gathered from a range of sources including, the child, parents and carers, school and other relevant professionals;
- set out specific and realistic targets, and how they will be measured, agreed by all involved, including the child, and broken down into manageable chunks;
- identify the input and support from the school, parents and carers, the child will receive to help them reach the agreed targets;
- identify the input and support from all other relevant professionals and agencies the child will receive to help them reach the agreed targets;
- identify the recognition and rewards the child will receive when they demonstrate efforts to meet the agreed targets;
- identify the consequences if the child does not demonstrate efforts to meet the agreed targets including any sanctions that may be applied;
- identify how long the PSP will last and when it will be reviewed. Any PSP should be given appropriate time to ensure the pupil has opportunity to demonstrate efforts to improve. A PSP should have a time limit, for example, 16 working weeks. During this time progress should be regularly monitored and adjustments made to the PSP as necessary.
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