In the fast‑paced reality of school life, supporting staff wellbeing is essential - not only to sustain those who care for pupils every day, but to create healthy, resilient learning environments where everyone can thrive.
This page details the support available for your school.
Education Support
Education Support’s mission is to improve the mental health and wellbeing of teachers and education staff. They believe that better mental health leads to better education.
They have many resources available including:
Further information can be found by visiting the Education Support, supporting teachers and education staff (external link) web page.
Anna Freud
The intensity of school environments can take a toll on staff members. Anna Freud offer lots of resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of school and college staff including:
Emotional Friendly Settings
Emotionally Friendly Settings (EFS) will help you to assess and enhance emotional health and well-being in your individual setting through an established assess, plan, do and review approach that will revolutionise your setting’s approach to emotional and mental health.
In implementing Emotionally Friendly Settings, you will actively see:
- A clear response across the entire school to improve children, young people’s, and staff well-being
- Greater skills and expertise of all staff to meet children and young people’s needs and help them to achieve their potential
- Confidence in staff knowing that they feel secure in using the best available programmes and interventions
- Teachers enthusiastically applying practical, proven strategies to improve behaviour and well-being across the school
- Staff being able to clearly demonstrate excellent practice based on the best available approaches
- A shared response with a network of good practice and support.
You can gain more information on EFS by visiting Educational Psychology Service - Be Wigan Services for Schools (external link).