Mental health and wellbeing
Children out of School due to long-term Mental Health difficulties
If your child has not been able to attend school due to long-term mental health difficulties, in the first instance make an appointment with your Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) in your school, to discuss what support can be provided. See the following guidance which includes the Coventry approach to Early Support:
Extended School Non-Attendance Advisory Panel (ESNAAP)
In cases, where despite early support being provided, the young person’s situation has shown no or only limited improvement, schools may refer the young person’s case to the Extended School Non-Attendance Advisory Panel (ESNAAP).
ESNAAP is made up of professionals from Coventry’s SEND team, Attendance and Children Missing Education (CME) team, the Education Psychology Service and the Hospital Education Service. The panel meet once a month to review each referral and consider the most appropriate support. After each meeting, a member of the panel will feedback the outcomes of their discussion to the school together with a recommended course of action. This may be signposting to additional resources and support, or in the most complex cases, a short-term intervention from the Hospital Education Service.
Hospital Education Service
The Hospital Education Service is a Transition Service with three key provisions:
- Hospital school at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
- Home tuition service
- Pupil referral unit based at Whitmore Park Annexe
Pupils are referred to this service in the following ways (as indicated in the admissions criteria via the Hospital Education Service Referral Pathways webpage):
- By a hospital consultant following a child’s discharge from hospital due to injury or surgery
- By a CAMHS consultant recommending a period of intervention
- By medical professionals following a child’s discharge from a Tier 4 provision
- By the ‘Extended Non-Attendance at School’ Panel (ENAS pathway)