Best Practice

The cornerstones of character: Leadership

Curriculum Senior leadership Mental health Character education
The importance of good leadership in mental health and character education provision has been identified as one of the four cornerstones of best practice. Matt Bawden explores what this might look like

In a previous article I focused on two recent reports from the Department for Education (DfE), which suggest that four cornerstones are needed for successful in-school mental health and character education provision (The links between mental health and character education, SecEd, September 2017: http://bit.ly/2yG016F).

These cornerstones are leadership, accountability, direction and opportunity. In my next four articles for SecEd, I shall address these cornerstones. This article addresses the role that explicit school mental health and character education leadership can play in developing effective provision.

The school I work in has a dedicated social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) leader, who takes on a training role as well as offering triage. He co-ordinates with others and identifies need. He leads staff training and supports the pastoral systems.

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