Audit of pastoral care system and local agencies for signposting

When deciding on the remit and aim of your pupil champion programme, you will need to consider what support is already available and how your new programme may complement existing systems or services. Identify what support systems are already in place in your school that could be utilised, such as a nurture group or a school counsellor, for example perhaps the counsellor could deliver training to your pupil champions on good listening skills. Also consider what support systems are available externally in your local area and consider how these might be utilised to complement your programme, for example your school nurse may be able to provide resources for your pupil champions to adapt into their own assembly on a healthy lifestyle.

Once you have audited the current support systems in place, you might fi nd it useful to draw it all up into a list or diagram for the use of pupil champions in case they want to make any suggestions to their peers. Compass BUZZ can provide information to support this. It is important that your champions (and indeed the rest of your pupils) understand the help available, and so you might also consider inviting representatives in from services to explain what they do.

Key questions:

• What support systems are currently available in your school, local area and national services? • What do these support systems provide to young people? • How can they be accessed? • How can your new pupil wellbeing champion programme potentially utilise or complement these? • What age appropriate online services and apps are available?

It is important that your champions understand the help available