Useful links and resources
Useful links and resources
- Online learning
- Post 16 and careers
- Mental health support
- Mentoring
- Neurodiversity Support
- CPD and recommended reading for staff
- Safeguarding: Violence, knife crime, sexually harmful behaviours
- Trauma informed
- Transitions
- Therapeutic interventions including animal therapy
- Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Speech and language help
- Fostering, adoption and post order resources
- Welcoming refugee children (trauma informed)
- PPG guidance
- Youth Groups and Intervention (including those at risk of offending/exploitation)
- Drug and Alcohol Prevention
- Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance’ or (EBSNA)
- Staff Wellbeing
Post 16 and careers
bucksskillshub.org
Uptree students
icould.com
nationalcareers.service.gov.uk
Youth space | Family Information Service
Youth Enquiry Service - High Wycombe
Shaw Trust - We support young people to realise their potential
Restore Hope-enriching groups, courses and activities to help local people in need take their next best step for a hope-filled tomorrow.
Support we offer - NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies
Mental health support
Free Resources Archives - ELSA Support (elsa-support.co.uk)
Improving children’s mental health in schools – (Place2Be)
Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK | Shout 85258 (giveusashout.org)
Home - Calm Harm App
Resource library: Mentally Healthy Schools
M.I.N.T.
Phone: 07850 376130
Email: info@mintcounselling.org
Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org)
Nip in the Bud: Nip in the Bud works with mental health professionals of the highest standing to produce FREE short evidence-based films, fact sheets, blogs, and podcasts to help parents/carers, primary school staff, teacher trainees, and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions.
The Charlie Waller Trust: Mental Health Resources and Training. We provide mental health training and resources with a focus on children and young people. We equip parents, carers, teachers, and communities with the best and latest evidence-based strategies. We give them the knowledge and confidence to help young people thrive.
Young Minds: We provide young people with the tools to look after their mental health. We empower adults to be the best support they can be to the young people in their lives. Guides for young people, guides for parents/carers, and a parents' helpline.
Alumina: A free, online 7-week course for young people struggling with self-harm. (10-17 year olds)
Beyond: Beyond is a youth mental health charity tackling the growing mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK.
Mentoring
Neurodiversity Support
The Parents Portal - Autism Early Support: An interactive 24/7 community of support, resources, and guidance. Free for Buckinghamshire residents.
Autism Toolbox – Buckinghamshire Council Family Information Service:
Whether or not your child has an autism diagnosis, this toolbox will provide advice and signpost you to support, services, and resources to help you to support your child.
Autistic Girls Network – information and resources:
A small registered charity working to support autistic women, girls, and their families by providing education, resources and community.
CPD and recommended reading for staff
Safeguarding: Violence, knife crime, sexually harmful behaviours
The Ben Kinsella Trust Email:info@benkinsella.org.uk
MPS Guidance for Schools and Colleges – (National FGM Centre)
ChildLine- Report and Remove
Artificial Intelligence: Training and Support Resources (DfE)
Children with a Parent in Prison - Children Seen and Heard
Childline- all things safeguarding!
Barnardo’s- all things safeguarding!
NSPCC- all things safeguarding!
Trauma informed
(beaconhouse.org.uk) useful-resources
Resources - UKTC (uktraumacouncil.org)
Barnardo's Thames Valley Trauma Informed Padlet: Advice and signposting to help spread and embed Trauma Awareness and Trauma-Informed Practice throughout Thames Valley.
Child Bereavement UK: This guide is free to download and offers schools and educational settings guidance, support, and information when a death occurs in the school community, when a school is facing an expected death, or when a pupil is facing bereavement.
Nudge Education: Nudge Education provides a range of services to support young people who have become chronically disengaged from education, no matter the reason.
UK Trauma Council: Resources to support individuals and organisations working to nurture and protect children and young people following trauma. You will find articles, animations, videos, guidance, handouts, presentations, and more — all created by the UK’s leading childhood trauma experts.
Hector's House: Promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention
Mindjam Mentoring: At MindJam, our primary focus is to support young people’s emotional well-being. We believe that the key to doing so is by engaging them in a world in which they feel safe and comfortable, namely video games. We support young people between the ages 6 – 25.
OpenLearn Create is an educational platform providing free courses, including one entitled “Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice – an introductory course for everyone”, which aims to help you understand the concepts of “trauma-informed” and “relationship-based” practices.
Transitions
Moving up! The transition to secondary school | Anna Freud
The Small Fish Podcast- helping parents and children’s workers to create conversations about the transition from primary to secondary school.
Getting children ready for reception: supporting effective transition DFE
Supporting the Transition from Primary to Secondary School for SEN Children with Kirsty Greenwood: The SENDcast | Podcast on Spotify
Supporting your child's transition to secondary school | Bucks Family Information Service
Young Minds: Helping your child manage the move from primary to secondary school
BBC Teach: Transitioning to secondary school
Therapeutic interventions including animal therapy
The Zones of Regulation | A Curriculum For Emotional Regulation
(adhdfoundation.org.uk)
www.autismteachingcompany.org.uk
Free resources available - Your Therapy Source
(ilslearningcorner.com)
Home - Chiltern Forest School
Wild for Life
Orchard Therapeutic Farm
Harmony Alternative Education
Heroesberkshire
Ride High Equestrian Centre MK: horse riding and life skills work, as well as educational trips, visits, and residentials during the school holidays.
Horsewyse(Long Crendon): Working with children with ASD, ADHD, behavioural and anxiety, and more complex needs, as well as many other disabilities/mental health.
Animal Antiks North Marston: Animal-assisted Learning and Therapy.
Therapy dogs PAWS Bracknell: Animal-assisted interventions.
SEND/SEMH children's Alternative Provision Fields of Dreams Farm, Potterspury: Fields of Dreams was founded because we recognised a deep need to be a voice for students who struggle in mainstream education.
Rossway RDA Amersham: We provide opportunities to ride or simply be with horses and to support children & adults with physical, emotional, or psychological challenges.
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
FASD.me: Website for children to understand and celebrate their FASD diagnosis
National Organisation for FASD: includes information and resources for schools and families
FASD Hub on the Adoption UK website
Speech and language help
NHS Buckinghamshire Healthcare – Speech and language therapy
- General information and advice
- Speech and language therapy virtual advice sessions – advice for parents, carers, and professionals working in education settings
Fostering, adoption and post order resources
BraveHeart Education - #1 Attachment and Trauma Training
Adoption UK: Adoption UK is the leading charity for adopted and care-experienced people, adoptive families, and others parenting children who can’t live with their birth parents
Buckinghamshire Adoption: preparing and supporting you through adoption and after
Buckinghamshire Guardians guide: support and information for special guardians
Welcoming refugee children (trauma informed)
International Rescue Committee: The Healing Classrooms programme aims to support schools and educators to develop inclusive and nurturing learning spaces where refugee and asylum-seeking students can gain the necessary academic, social, and emotional skills to develop their full potential.
The Bell Foundation: EAL resources for schools
EAL Hub: resources, assessment and support
Widgit: Free communication boards and symbol resources
PPG guidance
Youth Groups and Intervention (including those at risk of offending/exploitation)
Drug and Alcohol Prevention
Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance’ or (EBSNA)
Staff Wellbeing
School staff mental health and wellbeing resources available | Anna Freud Centre
Secondary trauma in schools - Braveheart Education
Wellbeing Action Plan for Adults – The Charlie Waller Trust: Sometimes, especially when we have other people to look after, it can be hard to remember to take care of our own well-being. Whether or not you’ve experienced mental health issues, you might find our Wellbeing Action Plan useful.