SCSN is an independent social enterprise that works in collaboration with the MOD and Military welfare organisations to support Educational and Welfare professionals and Members of the Military in their roles in supporting Service Children and their families. Sharing best practice to support Service Children Service Children Support Network Our coordinators Helen Brettell is our Halton cluster coordinator and Emma Cheedy is our High Wycombe cluster coordinator. Both coordinators have a background in early years and primary education and are also RAF wives. They work within local schools to directly support Service children and ease the potential impacts of mobility and parental deployment. Additionally they liaise with the Service Community and local multi-agency professionals. If you are moving into the county and you would like some support from Emma or Helen please get in touch. Follow us @JoyONeillSCSN Search: Service Children Support Network Or visit us at: www.servicechildrensupportnetwork.com Emma Cheedy [email protected]Helen Brettell [email protected]
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SCSN is an independent social enterprise that works in collaboration with the MOD and Military welfare organisations to support Educational and Welfare professionals and Members of the Military in their roles in supporting Service Children and their families.
Sharing best practice to support Service Children
Service Children Support Network
Our coordinatorsHelen Brettell is our Halton cluster coordinator and Emma Cheedy is our High Wycombe cluster coordinator.
Both coordinators have a background in early years and primary education and are also RAF wives. They work within local schools to directly support Service children and ease the potential impacts of mobility and parental deployment. Additionally they liaise with the Service Community and local multi-agency professionals.
If you are moving into the county and you would like some support from Emma or Helen please get in touch.
Follow us @JoyONeillSCSNSearch: Service Children Support Network
Or visit us at:www.servicechildrensupportnetwork.com
Our Service Children support project began in 2009 with Caroline Allen at Halton School in Buckinghamshire. The project has now expanded to cover a cluster of primary and secondary schools around RAF Halton and RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire with the aid of our peripatetic support coordinators Emma Cheedy and Helen Brettell. The project is set to expand into more schools in Buckinghamshire in 2013.
The History of the project
Halton School is a small Primary with
approximately 75% Service children
on roll. In 2008, and in response to the
concerns about the impacts of transition
and high-mobility that had been raised by
parents and staff a small scale research
project was carried out. Parents asked for
a ‘support worker’ who understood the
military life and also the education system.
‘Someone who could help their children
as they moved into and out of the school
and when parents were deployed’ (O’Neill,
2008). As a result, the Halton Mobility Pilot
Project took shape and in 2009 funding was
secured for the establishment of a ‘Mobility/
Family Support Co-ordinator’ to work
specifically with Service children and their
families at Halton School.
The project has been very successful to date
with both pupils and parents reporting that
their experiences have been ‘positive and
caring’. The project was given an ‘Outstanding’
assessment by Ofsted in 2011.
The current projectIn 2011 and in response to Service parents whose children were in other schools in the county we designed our peripatetic Service Children Support project.
This project has been modelled on the very successful Halton School project. At present we have two Service Children Support Coordinators based in and around RAF Halton and RAF High Wycombe. To date these posts have been funded by the MOD £3M Service Children’s fund and due to high levels of interest from families and schools we hope to extend the project further in 2013. The project is supported by Buckinghamshire Local Authority.
