What we do

Services provided

The Kent Safe School service map illustrates the service we provide across Kent.

The framework in which services are developed and delivered is as follows:

• Youth Action Groups
  Provide groups that enable children and young people to identify and devise solutions for areas of concern to them, in their school or community
• Primary intervention groups
  Nurture, self-esteem, social skills, anger management
• Peer Mentoring
  Provide training for referred and volunteer students to become mentors, pair them with pupils in need of support to offer continued support and guidance
• Anti-bullying activities
  Delivery of awareness training and school based workshops to combat bullying
• Parenting Support
  Provide support and training to parenting practitioners and groups parents in Thanet
• Kent Vocational Training Programme (KVTP)
  Provide work experience, placements and training for young people wishing to enter the care sector
• Work Based Learning
  Providing work experience and skills through work placements and community projects for KS4 pupils at risk of becoming 'Not in Education, Employment or Training' (NEET)
• Transitional activities
  Provide support to children and young people at significant transition points in their life to ensure they remain engaged
• Restorative practices
  Supporting schools to develop restorative cultures to tackle behavioural issues
• Diversionary activities
  Providing out-of-school activities in a safe environment aimed at providing a positive experience for children and young people and reducing anti-social or offending behaviour in the locality
• Schools Drugs Educational Advisory Service
  Drugs Education is a statutory requirement of the National Curriculum Science Order. Schools are expected to extend substance misuse education (including illegal drugs, alcohol and smoking) through the non-statutory framework for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education
• Alternative Curriculum
  Alternative curriculum provision for KS4 young people permanently excluded from school and KS1/2 children temporarily excluded from school, in specific districts
• Partnership working
  Working with partnership organisations to ensure a holistic approach to working with children and young people and to enhance the service delivery

Delivery of services in each area, district and ward is dependent on need, availability of funding and commissioning. (Please see Service Map link at top of page). Not all services are delivered throughout the County.