Practice Profiles
Practice profiles are developed by indepth interviews conducted with the PINS team through visits to your project, emails and telephone interviews. They present the challenges and outcomes of pupil inclusion work, helping us to develop understanding, improve practice and inform policy. The PINS team welcome approaches from practitioners and managers in the voluntary sector who would like to profile their work in pupil inclusion.
Follow the orange links to the main profiles.
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New! – Aberlour: Running: Other Choices
“It helps when teachers know their pupils individually – when they respond to individual needs. Some of the schools we work with are great. They appreciate reasons for fluctuations in attendance and are willing to make school work for the young person – whether that is a part time timetable or looking at alternative provision”
Laura Irvine, Service Manager, Aberlour Running: Other Choices -
Glow
A profile of the new Scottish Schools Digital Network that digitally links Scotland’s 800,000 educators and pupils and provides powerful tools for enhancing education and learning. -
Personal Support in Schools
“Schools need to be more aware of the services they can access through the Voluntary sector. They need to be aware that the Voluntary sector often has excellent resources available and staff with considerable expertise when working with children and young people who are in need of specialist support. There is a need for more understanding of the different ways agencies and schools operate”
Gill Scott, National Development Officer, Personal Support in Schools -
YMCA Youth Trust
“The Primary School initiative relies on volunteers from the Youth Trust network who receive training and are then paired off to work one to one with the Primary 6 pupils who have been identified as requiring extra support. The self esteem programme focuses upon activities designed, some purely for fun and others to build self worth and confidence”
Peter Crory, National General Secretary, YMCA Scotland
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"During the inspection process we genuinely want to work with all stakeholders including the private and voluntary sectors to support and improve services and provide constructive comments when identifying areas for improvement”
Kevin Mitchell, Lead Inspector Child Protection, HMIe
“In my experience it seemed to concentrate people’s minds on how we all work together. It is an opportunity to show the work that the organisation does and as such should be used to full advantage”
Helen Napier, Service Manager, Children 1st
- Scottish Government Education Department
“I welcome the practice that we now see of voluntary sector organisations, employers and schools working together to provide engaging learning opportunities and alternative forms of accrediting young people’s achievements”
Peter Peacock, Former Minister for Education and Young People
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Children 1st Family Support Team
"One thing which we do really well is provide a bridge between the school and the family which would other wise not be there"
Sandy Corlett, Service Manager
- Aberlour Crannog Central Project
"If a young person recognises that you value and respect them, they also begin to recognise that you have different standards and expectations in terms of their behaviour.”
Annette Bell, Social Education Worker
- NCH Renfrew Primary Support Team
“Early intervention work is essential. By targeting children at a much younger age problems are less developed and we find that parents are much more willing to be on board, constructive and provide a higher level of support”
Brian Emerson, Youth Justice Service Manager
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New - NCH PACT Project
“In a family focused setting the referred young person can begin to realise that they are not the problem and that other factors have contributed to the difficulty they are experiencing. They can also see that other family members are willing to help and attempt to change their own behaviour to improve the situation. I think this helps free the young person from a sometimes disproportionate sense of burden.”Cath Graham, Senior Practitioner
- Barnardo's Blackford Brae Project
“It is important to build relations with teachers, make sure they know why you are there and that they understand that you are keen to work in partnership with them to improve the behaviour and learning of their pupils. Sometimes this can just be about getting to know each other and taking the time to listen.”
Pauline Carter, Senior Social Work Practitioner
If you would like to have your practice profiled on the network then please email the PINS team at info@pinscotland.org or telephone 0131 555 3527.
