How ACT supports schools

Enabling Potential

We have a great understanding of the skills required to effectively engage and support pupils and their parents, offering bespoke solutions that help pupils overcome the obstacles that prevent them from achieving.

ACT can support you to:

  • Effectively engage with vulnerable and hard-to-reach children, young people, and their families.
  • Prevent and reduce the need for both internal and external exclusions
  • Support the social and emotional development of students
  • Provide underprivileged pupils with the supports they need to thrive
  • Increase engagement within school life
  • Help to Improve behaviour, punctuality, attendance, and attainment

Our Programmes and Services:

  • Behaviour Intervention Services

  • Critical Wrap-Around Support (Bespoke Pupil and Family Support)

  • ACTYVE (Youth Violence Education and Prevention Programmes)

  • Social Emotional Learning programmes

  • PSHE Solutions

  • Leadership Programmes

  • Employability Programmes

  • Enterprise Programmes

  • CPD Staff Training

  • Impact Measurement Reports

Schools
ACT Support - Critical Intervention
ACT Develop - Early Intervention
ACT Enable - Activating Creative Talent

ACT Support - Critical Intervention

Behaviour Intervention Programmes

Critical Intervention 1 to 1 Support

Our behaviour Intervention Services provide specialist practitioners who are able to form supportive and empowering relationships that help pupils to improve their behaviour in and around school through 1 to 1 support.

Critical Wrap-Around Support

Critical intervention: Bespoke Solutions

Our Critical Wrap-Around Support service provides specialists practitioners who will work in a more holistic way to address the needs of a young person in crisis. We carry out an initial assessment and develop a bespoke programme to suit the young person and their families needs.
 These services seek to meet a wide range of children and young people who are in need.
Our bespoke solutions provide highly specialised packages of support for pupils in crisis, providing conflict resolution, mediation, advocacy 1:1 sessions, mentoring, parental support, home visit, chaperone services, 1:1 supervision, educational support to help meet a wide range of children and young people’s needs.

ACT Develop Early Intervention

Social and Emotional Learning Programmes

Early Intervention: 1 to 1 and Small Groups

Our programmes are designed to support the social and emotional development of young people, who require more support in managing their emotions, developing better communication skills and getting support around their emotional well-being. These sessions are dedicated to improving the engagement of pupils within school. Delivered through 1 to 1 sessions and small group mentoring.

 

ACTYVE - ACT’s Youth Violence Education

Early Intervention: Small Group

ACTYVE is our Youth Violence Prevention Programme that is designed to both deter and prevent young people from engaging in youth violence, knives, crime, and gangs, through a series of workshops and exercises around the detrimental factors of ‘road life’ and gang culture. Delivered in small groups

PSHE Solutions

Early Intervention: Workshops and Assemblies

ACT provide high-quality PSHE facilitators that can work with you to meet your learning objectives and offer a balanced session to enhance your students learning experience rather than using fear, shock or guilt. ACT can also help you to organise, coordinate and select workshops for your exclusive ‘off timetable’ days on a variety themes such as Youth Violence, Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), Healthy Relationships and Mental Health. Contact us or visit our website for a full list of workshops we provide.

ACT Enable - Activating Creative Talent

Leadership, Employability and Enterprise Programmes:

Activating Creative Talent: Small Groups

We offer programmes that are based on experiential and participatory education; we focus on harnessing and cultivate young people’s natural skills and abilities to build self-esteem, identify their strengths and understand their weaknesses to help pupils prepare for life in the real world. We have a number of programmes that give young people the opportunity to become leaders, develop products or establish small businesses and understand what it takes to become employable. Contact us for more details on our Insight 2 Excite, the Management Factory, and our Peer Leadership training programmes.

(CPD) for Staff

ACT provides specialist CPD training and a number of issues and topics including:

County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation

Youth Violence and Knife Crime

Building effective relationships

Supporting young people’s emotional well being

Understanding vulnerable and marginalised young people

Young people and Society

How can we fund the services that our pupils need?

This fundamental question is often asked by schools who want to buy in the specialist services that ACT offer.