Resource Hub

Information, resources and guides to support schools with primary aged children who have experienced bereavement.

Resources to engage in conversations with children designed to open up thinking and discussion around the topics of death, grief and bereavement.

A PowerPoint presentation about sharing good practice from a trauma informed school perspective.

How to use emotion coaching to support children and young people.

Trauma Informed Relationships and Behaviour Policy template from the Violence Reduction Network (VRN).

A guide for school staff to use to spot distressing signs in a child's behaviour.

This leaflet provides staff with advice around how to support children going through school transitions.

This leaflet is designed to help staff to have effective, empowering interactions with children who have experienced trauma.

These printable transition cards can be used as a tangible object that lets the person know explicitly that they are being held in your mind.

Information for staff around techniques to move from behavioural to relational responses in order to better support children.

Helen Oakwater asks professionals, and teachers to look at what lies beneath the child or children whose behaviour is preventing them from being able to even settle in a
classroom let alone to begin learning.

Information about avoidant attachment patterns.

This simple worksheet may help your pupils to express their feelings and understand what may have triggered them.

• Quit Ready have have advice and guidance about having a smoke-free home and car which helps to keep you, your family, and your pets healthy.

Turning Point have put together a 'vaping risks' leaflet, please find below

• Kick Ash Smoke Free/Vape Free Policy template can be found below.

• National Institute for Health care Excellence (NICE) offer guidance on smoking prevention in schools for both primary and secondary schools.

Quit Ready Leicestershire & Rutland offer free help and advice on quitting smoking available via phone on 0345 646 66 66. Stop Smoking advisors also offer interactive workshops and/or presentations to raise awareness in schools and community settings

• NHS useful information on highlighting dangers of passive smoking to children.

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/

The Leicestershire Healthy Schools Team have created guidance to support schools to develop their own Drug, Alcohol, & Tobacco Policy

• NSPCC information and advice on how to keep children safe and aware of the risks with underage drinking.

• Drinkaware: here you can find a campaign toolkit on drink free days.
• Drink Aware - Provide support, information and advice about the impact of alcohol on you, your family or friends. Free webchat service available (hours vary). Call on 0300 123 1110.

A resource guide for parents of a child with an eating disorder. Written by parents with lived experience.

Various toolkits, including for parents and educators, are provided giving advice for various supporters of children and young people suffering with eating disorders.

On this website Mind offer more information on eating problems, types of eating disorders, causes of eating problems, recovery & self-care and treatment and support.

The UK's eating disorder charity who provide additional information and support around eating disorders. In addition they also offer a helpline and one-to-one web chat service.

Provided by the BBC for KS2/KS3, there is an animated video called 'Anorexia - Kirsty's story'. This resource could be used by teachers in PSHE sessions to start conversations about eating disorders.

Anorexia & bulimia care provide a free educational resource, Body Positive Schools, designed to support flexible teaching, with classroom activities, videos, group project ideas and whole school approaches to promoting body positive confidence and culture.

• Drug Education Forum how to engage parents in schools and in the community.

This toolkit provides information, from the perspective of children, young people and families who have experienced suicide on how to talk about suicide, self-care and best practice on what schools have done well to support.