Thought-Full Voice and Participation

Thought-Full is a Mental Health Support Team working in West Sussex. Working in 55% of schools in West Sussex, Thought-Full provides interventions for school pupils with mild to moderate mental and emotional health needs. 

Thought-Full also work with schools to support their whole school approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing. This helps schools to foster mentally healthy environments and to support pupils to develop and maintain positive mental health. As part of our offer, we provide training on a range of topics to school staff as well as delivering workshops to parents and carers. 

The purpose of the following survey is to support the development of Thought-Full's SEND offer.

For more information about Thought-Full please click here.

Please scroll down to complete the survey.

Please note that the Mental Health Support Teams in Schools is not an emergency service and cannot respond as such. 

If you feel you need urgent support please contact the Sussex Mental Health phone line - available 24/7 on 0800 0309 500. 

If you or your child are at immediate risk of harm or require medical attention please call 999 or visit your nearest local Accident and Emergency department at hospital.

Other crisis support:

• Young Minds Messenger – text Sussex to 85258 – available 24/7
• Childline (24/7)
• Papyrus (Prevention of Young Suicide)
• Samaritans

Thought-Full is a Mental Health Support Team working in West Sussex. Working in 55% of schools in West Sussex, Thought-Full provides interventions for school pupils with mild to moderate mental and emotional health needs. 

Thought-Full also work with schools to support their whole school approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing. This helps schools to foster mentally healthy environments and to support pupils to develop and maintain positive mental health. As part of our offer, we provide training on a range of topics to school staff as well as delivering workshops to parents and carers. 

The purpose of the following survey is to understand what books and resources school staff use, what staff recommend to others and what is missing. This will inform Thought-Full's development of a recommended resource pack and development of resources to fill any gaps. 

Overview

This form is for: Professional use. 

This form has been created for completion by those who would like to involve service users* and support them to get their voice heard. The earlier in the process you consider how you would like to involve young people the better. 

School Staff: This form can be used to gather the voices of your staff members and parents/carers. 

Before you complete this request, please read the attached sheet Help sheet for Consultation with young people listed in the "Important links" section to the right of the page and at https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/7694/widgets/28844/documents/13364  

Accessibility Statement 

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*Service users: Young People, Parents and School Staff

Hearing voices that other people do not hear is a common experience for young people. These voices can be very critical, and upsetting. 

Thought-Full is running a study called ECHOES which will test a brief talking therapy aimed at helping students to cope better.

Please complete this form if you would like some support about your experiences or to learn more about the study. 

**Data Protection/Privacy Notice

Thought-Full will use this form to collect personal and special category data the processing of which is necessary to enable us to be compliant with the law (general well-being duties), and for reasons of substantial public interest. The data will be processed in accordance with the 2018 Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulations, and any subsequent data protection legislation. The data we collect will be securely stored and kept for period of up to 2 years before being appropriately destroyed. The data we will collect will not be used for any other purpose than that stated above without your prior written consent. West Sussex County Council is registered as Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further details and information about our Data Controller, please see www.westsussex.gov.uk/privacy-policy.

This feedback form is to gather your views following attendance at a workshop delivered by Thought-Full.

Thank you.

This feedback form is to gather your views following attendance at a workshop delivered by Thought-Full.

Thank you.

Your feedback is important to make these days as useful to you as possible. 

Please can you complete the following evaluation form for the Thought-Full Team Away Day 10.12.24

Thought-Full are planning to develop a resilience resource for our secondary schools. We would like this to be useful to and informed by schools. Please could you complete this survey by the 10th of November 2023. 

Please do not complete unless you have been asked to by one of our practitioners.  

As part of our organisation we are regularly required to feedback to others about the work that the MHSTs do. This can involve a number of different people including commissioners, other services, researchers, schools and sometimes other places we are asked to speak to about the work the team does. We often produce graphs to say things like how many referrals we received, how many sessions we offer and the interventions that we do. Whilst this is important, what people really want to know is what the people who use our service think of it. We also produce leaflets, videos, social media posts and other publications about our service and often people want to hear from the people who have used the service and what they thought.

At the end of your work with the team your practitioner may ask you if you would be willing to share your experience that we can then use for communications. This may be a summary of the work you did with your practitioner and the journey you went on. You and your practitioner will agree what this summary says. We will also ask you to complete a questionnaire to give us feedback about your experience with us, in your words.  

This form will tell us what you are happy for us to share and what you are not happy for us to share.

Any information you do agree to share will be anonymised. This means it will not include your name or your school and that you will not be able to be identified based on the information provided.

We are keen to learn about positive work that is taking place to support children and young people who are experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA).  

We will use the information that you provide to give examples from practice on our newly published Thriving In Education website and to help us develop pilot projects to support improving practice

We are keen to learn about positive work that is taking place to support children and young people who are experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA).  

We will use the information that you provide to give examples from practice on our newly published Thriving In Education website and to help us develop pilot projects to support improving practice

Thought-Full are currently exploring the use of closing letters following an intervention. This anonymous survey is designed to find out what you, as practitioners, think about closing letters and the practicalities of these.

Stage 1: Practitioners perspective - understanding the use of closing letters. 

Stage 2: Practitioner focus group - deeper understanding of themes from survey. 

Stage 3: 

• Service user focus group - Secondary school pupils
• Survey - Parents and young people.

Stage 4: Report submitted to Senior Leadership

Stage 5: Feedback to Thought-Full Staff

Congratulations on completing your intervention with a Thought-Full Practitioner. 

We are currently taking feedback from parents/carers and young people about closing letters. 

Each child, young person, parent/carer receives a closing letter following their support from a Thought-Full Practitioner. Copies may also be sent to your school and GP. These letters contain your journey of support from the moment you were referred to, and when you finished with, Thought-Full. It contains information about how you can support yourself, or how others can support you, if you find it difficult in the future. 

Having read your letter, we would like to know your thoughts about it? We don't want to know your name and all the information is anonymous. All your answers will remain confidential and any information used will be anonymised.

If you have any questions about this please email: Paul.Wilkinson@westsussex.gov.uk  

Thought-Full are seeking the views of parents and carers about engagement with schools. 

The information provided will be used to inform what advice we give to schools about how best to engage parents and carers. All information with be anonymous. 

If you would like more information about this survey please contact: paul.wilkinson@westsussex.gov.uk 

Following the recent training with Allsorts, several people have suggested we provide pronoun badges for those who wish to wear them. There is no expectation for anyone to do this but it was raised in the training that wearing a pronoun badge helps normalise the non-assumption of pronouns, and encourages diversity and inclusivity.  

So that we don’t make presumptions, please if you would like one/s tell us (anonymously) which you would like so we can order them for the away day.  You can choose more than one. 

This survey is for parents of and pupils from Year 11 at Millais School in the 24/25 academic year to ascertain which topics would be of interest for delivery at a future workshop. 

Allsorts are offering a unique opportunity for Thought-Full and School Staff to take a deeper dive into key subjects related to supporting our LGBT+ Students (and parents and staff). These two-hour online sessions will be your chance to ask questions and explore in much more depth the nuanced situations and cases you face in your schools regarding LGBT+ people. The sessions will be a much more open Q&A and exploration of case studies rather than content-based training. 

This is your chance to anonymously ask the questions you always wanted to ask, raise the concerns you have or have heard from others about LGBT+ students, and get down into the details of more complex issues and cases.

There will be three sessions available, each covering a different subject area. We highly recommend that you attend all three sessions.

 A. Trans, non-binary, and gender-exploring - a closer look

Examples of areas we can cover:

• Information about supporting young people who are exploring their gender identity
• More in-depth understanding of the gender identity spectrum and terminology
• The intersections between autism and gender identity
  

B. Dealing with anti-LGBT+ bullying, incidents, and attitudes 

Examples of areas we can cover:

• Working with families who are not accepting/supportive (inc. cultural and religious factors)
• Specific guidance for dealing with anti-LGBT+ bullying, incidents, and attitudes from school staff, students, parents/carers, and the wider community
• Navigating government guidance and legalities 

 C. Creating more inclusive schools for LGBT+ students 

Examples of areas we can cover:

• Examples and sharing of best practices around student support, learning and curriculum, policies and guidance, culture and ethos, and the school environment
• How to set up an LGBT+ Group at school
• More in-depth understanding of the sexual orientation spectrum (e.g. pansexual)