Members of DCF are currently involved in a project with the Black Pear MAT, along with the school effectiveness lead and colleagues from the School of Allied Health and Community. The project is focussed on school employees and originated from a request from the CEO of Black Pear, who is passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of her staff.
We first developed an online survey that went out to school staff across the Midlands in order to assess the ‘bigger picture’. This resulted in 274 responses from a wide range of settings, and produced findings indicating, as might be predicted, significant stress and fatigue among teachers, TAs, admin staff and others working in school.
As a result of the findings, two members of UW staff are currently delivering a training package to a pilot group of Black Pear staff, between November 2022 and February 2023. It is hoped that, as well as making a difference to the wellbeing culture of the MAT, this training package might be developed into a CPD opportunity in the future.
2019 Blaenau Gwent Evaluation of Families First
2020 Blaenau Gwent Evaluation of Supporting Change
2020 Blaenau Gwent Evaluation of Safe Reduction of CLA
2021 Blaenau Gwent Evaluation of Disability Service
2022 Blaenau Gwent Evaluation of Disability Service ( 2)
2022 Blaenau Gwent Longitudinal study
schools’ roles in Early Years sector improvements‘ is available online and has led to a number of further outputs listed under our publications.
Staff in the Department for Children and Families have a wide range of expertise and work in a variety of different fields. If your organisation is interested in Continuing Professional Development or Consultancy that we already offer or would like to propose work in new areas, then we are happy discuss this. Please contact Tom Weaver (t.weaver@worc.ac.uk) if you are interested.