Family Liaison

We place huge emphasis on our relationship with the families of our pupils. We develop personal plans with every child and consult closely with parents at every step of the way.

Your journey with us begins long before your child starts their first school day at Yarrow Heights. Our pupils have a range of needs that are unable to be supported within mainstream or specialist traditional behavioural approaches of some other specialist SEMH schools.

We work with you from the outset to understand your child’s situation and individual needs. Once we agree that Yarrow Heights is the appropriate choice with Local Authority approval, we begin the careful process of transition which is specifically tailored to your child’s needs. This includes multiple visits for you and your child. We aim to ensure our pupils feel part of our school from day one.

Our Family Liaison Lead facilitates and enhances the partnership between home, school, and the wider school community, through direct and indirect support, individual liaison, parental training and workshops and coaching.

Family Liaison works directly with children and their families in the community, within their homes as well as at the school, to promote, strengthen and develop the inter-family relationship between parents/ carers and children to promote the long-term engagement and enjoyment of learning. They are also in close consultation with the YHS Therapy Team, the Education Team and involved professionals to create time-limited multi-agency short term and longer-term programmes of support.

Parenting with Purpose Courses

Our Family Liaison Lead provides regular parenting courses, based on the successful ‘Parenting with Partnership model’ The teenage years can be a minefield. As parents, we need to learn to be a boundary, not a bulldozer. Our course begins by strengthening your connection with your child, and their connection to the values you want to foster. It addresses the critically important area of emotional regulation (for you and them) and provides skills for you to reframe the rules as your child moves toward independence. Modern neuroscience offers brand new insights into why children behave as they do. Our course uses this research coupled with cutting edge advice on behavioural change and human motivation to help you guide your adolescent through these highly formative years.