Place2be - Therapeutic Support in Schools
Place2Be in schools offers a whole school approach to improving children's wellbeing.
The service works with children and young people aged 4 to 18 years, their parents and carers and other support networks to improve their wellbeing.
The service offers:
- one-to-one counselling sessions - children receive a weekly session with a trained counsellor for a school term or whole school year;
- group work - weekly sessions with groups of children, focusing on specific issues, such as friendship, bullying, or transition to secondary school;
- Place2Talk - children refer themselves to a lunchtime sessions. They can come alone, or with their friends;
- teachers - Place2Be works with teachers and school staff to enhance understanding of children’s needs and behaviours and to improve the emotional literacy of the school community;
- training - Place2Be provides training for school staff to further develop and enhance these skills; and
- Parents - support for parents to help them come to terms with events in their own lives, develop their parenting skills, and to better understand their children's behaviour
There are 14 primary schools with the service in Wandsworth:
- Allfarthing
- The Alton
- Goldfinch
- Honeywell Junior and Infant
- Sellincourt
- Hillbrook
- St Anselm
- Holy Ghost
- Heathmere
- Penwortham
- Roehampton Primary School
- Trinity
- Earlsfield
- Smallwood
All Wandsworth secondary schools offer Place2Be services.
Staff, parents and children can find the service through their schools. Please email [javascript protected email address] for more information.
Available to young people, parents/carers and staff within primary schools who have Place2be. Young people can self-refer, or be referred by parents, school staff or other professionals.
