Supporting student well-being is a key factor in the role for all staff at Hartland High School to ensure the safety, happiness and progress of students. We do this by offering pastoral support to students in their transition from children to adults. This includes support and advice around physical health, mental health, sexual health and emotional well-being. We also empower our students by teaching them about the risks online and in their wider environment around exploitation, both sexual and criminal.

By identifying students and their families who may need additional pastoral support as early as possible it is more likely that the support offered will have a positive and long-lasting outcome.

Effective early help relies upon students, parents, Hartland High School and local agencies working together to:

• Identify children and families who would benefit from early help;

• Undertake an assessment of the need for early help

• Provide targeted early help services to address the assessed needs of a student and their family which focuses on activity to significantly improve the outcomes for the student.

If you would like to discuss the support available, please read the sections below that outline the support available at Hartland High School and in the wider community, and contact C Thompson who is the Designated Safeguarding Lead and can be contacted at: safe@hartlandhigh.co.uk.

Additional external support services:

• Berkshire Women’s Aid - provides a range of services to enable people in situations of domestic abuse to make choices about their future and to rebuild their lives.

• Daisy’s Dream - Advice and support for children, young people and their families, both facing and following a bereavement.

• No.5 Counselling – No.5 is Reading's young person's counselling centre, dedicated to providing free, confidential counselling and emotional support to anyone between the ages of 10-25

• SAFE Project - provide support to young people who have been hurt by a crime or bullying.

• Liaison and Diversion Team – provide assessment and 1:1 work to divert students at risk of being criminalised.

These are just a few of the external services we have worked with. The pastoral team will always try and find the service that offers the best outcomes for the students and their families/carers.