Wellbeing Support Tool
The Wellbeing Support Tool has been developed by David Bartlett MBE, head of Pear Tree School. This is a school for students with special needs. The school works with children with severe social needs, such as bullying, exploitation and abuse.
The Wellbeing Support Tool is offered free to schools. It is suitable for mainstream schools with particularly challenging students who may need professional support but who are not able to access the support they need.
The tool helps schools to assess the individual needs of individual students. It was developed to help all schools identify specific issues that the student may need to address. The tool is founded on values-based principles. It provides extensive suggestions and the school offers in-person support where needed.
Who Should Use the Tool
The free tool assesses two foundations of students' wellbeing, their Personal Holistic Competence and their Values. It breaks their competencies down into 11 personal sections such as health, emotional and behavioural development, identity and family, and social relationships. The assessed results establish a series of measurements that help schools to understand the most pressing areas of emotional support needed by the student and how prepared s/he is to enter the workforce.
The assessor can be a teacher, instructor, support worker or carer. The assessor only needs to input data if an issue is identified. The system automatically generates an action plan at the end of the process for the child and support team to work towards.
The assessment tool is available here: www.onlinephc.com
Easy Access
The tool is quick and easy to access. Below are examples of the simple pages an assessor fills in when they start an assessment.
Easy to Use
The tool asks a series of prefilled questions about the student. The assessor only needs to enter information if an issue is identified. This makes it is relatively quick to use. Example forms are set out below.
Tool Reports
The system creates a tailored report with an action plan for the student and their support team to work towards. Research shows that sustainable improvements in wellbeing are best achieved through small steps. The tool has been developed to support and encourage progress over time.
The report is set out in three sections:
What the issues are
How to make improvements
A numeric summary that allows the support team to monitor progress over time
To download an example report, click here
How to Get Started
Information on how to access and use the tool is below:
The free tool is available from the button below or here: www.onlinephc.com
For the instruction video, click the image to the left or click here
For a written description of the tool, click here
For in-person support, click here: www.ukphc.com/contact-us/
For a PDF document with the key links to the tool, click here
Scientific Underpinning
The tool was subject to independent research. It examined how effective the tool was in improving the wellbeing of students, with a particular emphasis on students with significant emotional challenges. The research found that statistically significant changes to children’s global wellbeing can be meaningfully captured using the tool's marginal gains informed measure.
To read the research and its findings, click here: Research Paper