ABSTRACT
There are three main ways – not necessarily mutually exclusive – of setting up emotional support for children in schools:
the first way is when the school buys-in a school-based external agency that provides counsellors/therapists and their own manager;
the second way is to employ dramatherapists, other arts therapists and play therapists and/or school counsellors to work with children who are of concern;
the third way is for the school to develop an emotional support programme itself, using school staff who receive appropriate training.
