The emotional health and wellbeing pathway has been developed in partnership with colleagues from the Educational Psychology Service, CAMHS, School Nursing and Public Health to support education settings to identify need, implement effective interventions and source appropriate external support in a graduated way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pathway follows the I THRIVE Framework which is a person-centred and needs-led approach to supporting mental health needs. Most children and young people thrive and cope with the \u2018normal\u2019 difficulties and challenges of life and of growing up. They usually cope with challenges using their own resilience, the support of family and friends and support from their school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Individual Health Care plans and reasonable adjustments for known health conditions or SEND (and staff training on identification and management of these needs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Freud Schools in Mind Network Useful resources include: We Eat Elephants, My Big Life and Living Life to the Full<\/a> LGBTQI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some children and young people show signs of emerging mental health needs and\/or are struggling with their emotional wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Problems may be outside the normal range for their age or gender and of a mild to moderate nature. These will be starting to cause difficulties with their school work, friendships or family relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy Maps<\/a>: reliable resources to support emotional health and wellbeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few children and young people will show signs of significant mental health problems that impact on daily activities and prevent them from These may be persistent and moderate to severe in nature, causing significant difficulties with their achievement and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This may be needed for serious mental health crisis (for example, psychosis), suicidal ideation or serious weight loss and signs of an eating disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Children and young people with complex and significant learning needs may express their mental health needs via challenging behaviour or detachment\/withdrawal. Seek support from the Learning Disability Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may need to contact the police if behaviours are aggressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow safeguarding procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call the police if the child or young person has absconded or is expressing suicidal ideation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DSCP provide further guidance on suicide prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The emotional health and wellbeing pathway has been developed in partnership with colleagues from the Educational Psychology Service, CAMHS, School Nursing and Public Health to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":9632,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 02:40:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31899,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262\/revisions\/31899"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The emotional health and wellbeing pathway can be downloaded as a PDF<\/a> if required.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLevel of need: Thriving – universal level<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Staff training \u2013 MH First Aid, EH4MH, MindEd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Solihull Parenting Online<\/a> (access code TAMAR)<\/p>\n\n\n\nCommunity and national support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Community support<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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National support<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Level of need: Getting advice – targeted support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Consider referring to school counsellor, educational psychologist, SEMH advisory teacher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nCommunity and national support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Level of need: Getting help – specialist support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
functioning within the norms for their age.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat can the school or setting do?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Community and national support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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or phone on 0330 0245 321<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\nNational support<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Level of need: Getting more help – urgent mental health support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Community and national support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Community support<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Level of need: Getting risk support – emergency medical help needed to preserve life following life-threatening self-harm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Community and national support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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