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Public Health England whole school approach

This document was produced by Public Health England and the Department for education. It outline eight evidence-based principles to guide the whole school approach, including practice examples.

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Implementing the whole school approach: audit tool and action plan (2023)

This audit tool provides a series of good practice prompts through which you can measure your setting’s progress.The action plan provides a structured guide based on the SMART acronym through which you can capture tasks for progressing and embedding each of the eight principles of the whole school approach.

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5 Steps to Mental Health and Wellbeing

This evidence-based framework aims to support a whole-school or college approach to mental health. It covers five areas: leading change, working together, understanding need, promoting wellbeing and supporting staff. The online tool allows schools to record progress against actions, with further examples and resources available on the website.

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ROAR! Self-Assessment Tool for schools

This self-assessment toolkit is designed to enable schools to recognise and reflect on areas in which they are adopting a Whole School Approach to student, family and staff emotional wellbeing, whilst identifying areas for improvement. It is based on Public Health England’s eight principles.

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Scottish Government Whole School Approach

The framework aligns with the Public Health England eight principles. It includes an audit tool, an implementation framework to monitor implementation and a list of outcome measures to assess individual wellbeing.

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Public Health Wales self assessment tool

The framework is based on the Public Health England eight principles. It includes a guidance document and an audit tool with a red, amber or green (RAG) rating system to support self-assessment.

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Whole School Framework for school leaders

This self-assessment and improvement tool aims to support school leaders to improve practice in schools through a four-stage implementation framework. Supporting resources include a summary of the research evidence and examples.

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Emotional and Mental Health Wellbeing Audit

This tool supports schools to review their current approach and identify strengths and areas for development using a self- assessed ‘RAG’ (red, amber or green) rating.
The action plan provided can be used to plan ‘next steps’.

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Sandwell Wellbeing Charter Mark

The Charter Mark is underpinned by the eight principles described by Public Health England. It requires collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team, using an action research approach to engage and support the school through the process over the course of a year.

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Hampshire CAMHS MHST wellbeing audit tool

The self-assessment tool was developed by Hampshire CAMHS. It includes an audit tool for schools, questionnaires for pupils, staff and parents with additional guidance and case studies to support action planning.

BoingBoing: whole-school academic resilience audit

The website offers a flexible approach for schools to audit academic resilience. A range of resources and activities such as surveys, focus groups and workshops for staff and pupils are available.

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