Liverpool’s Whole School Approach
Liverpool’s Whole School Approach to Mental Health model, built upon a public health WSA model, guides schools to develop and build their own WSA to mental health and emotional wellbeing. The outer rings of the model are ways in which the CAMHS partnership aim to support schools with their approach. Detailed information about this including a WSA self-assessment tool can be found on the CAMHS WSA webpage.
The ROAR WSA Senior Mental Health Lead training covers all aspects of this mode over a 10-session training programme. You can find out more about this training and book on here:
WSA Audit Tool
Schools can use the audit tool to self-assess their Whole School Approach to mental health. Developed by The Liverpool Learning Partnership and Merseyside Youth Association, this self-assessment toolkit is designed to enable staff in education settings 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.
Exploring the Whole School Approach model – based on PHE’s whole school review tool to promote children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing – staff will explore and review a range of aspects of school approaches, policies and systems in relation to (click on the segments to reveal further information). You can access the tool using the link below:
