Health and Wellbeing universal approaches

• What universal programmes and approaches do you use in your establishment?
• What universal approaches do you use in a targeted way in your establishment?

Practitioners from the establishments who participated in the pilot of this toolkit have provided this document: Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs – universal and targeted approaches June 2019

Assessment ‘Tools’

These tools are provided to assist high quality assessment through evidence informed prompts that encourage developing and deepening understanding, ensure breadth and depth to assessments and assist analysis of assessment information collected. They can be used for single agency assessment (eg. education only) or when there is a multi-agency team around a child/young person. 

The Named Person/Lead Professional and Team around the Child/Young Person will need to select assessment tools are likely to assist them at the beginning of an assessment process. This will depend on the initial concerns being raised and the factors that may be contributing.

As with all assessment, involvement of parents/carers is essential to establish the partnership working required to strengthen understanding of the child’s needs (assessment) to move towards supporting the anxiety (intervention). 

It may be that deepening assessment already undertaken is required so additional tools can be used a different stages of as assessment process as new information or concerns emerge or as the child/young person develops. 

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These are tools to assist universal assessment and                                                          emerging concerns about a child or young person experiencing anxiety

          

 

These are tools to record your assessment 

      

These are tools to undertake further assessment and assist your analysis of assessment information collected                                                                                                                            (you will need to select those that are most appropriate for each child/young person)

              

       

 

These are tools to assist in collecting the views of children/young people

                      

 

Requests for assistance to other agency/agencies

In the process of assessing the child/young person’s needs, it may become apparent that school and family based supports are sufficient to achieve the desired outcomes and that a request for assistance to any other agency/agencies is/are not required at that time.

If the team around the child deems it appropriate to make a request for assistance to another agency (eg. Educational Psychology Service, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), other) the toolkit enables good-quality initial assessment to be undertaken to inform decision making about whether any requests for assistance to other agencies is required and provide this assessment with the request being made. In doing so, practitioners should be informed by Falkirk Council Staged Intervention Framework and if relevant CAMHS webpage for professionals, children, young people and parents/carers

References and further sources of support                (understanding anxiety)