School 'Resilience Committees' led audits to identify what could make the school more resilient, they co-produced an action plan and made a pitch to a panel to receive funding to put their ideas into action.   

44 schools have been supported by innovation funding.

Primary schools often used funding to create self-soothing and calming spaces in the school. These spaces are used to work on wellbeing and resilience activities. The additional spaces also helped schools keep young people safe and distanced in the face of COVID-19.

 Secondary schools often used funding to increase community engagement and developed projects like establishing peer ambassadors and creating volunteering roles. 

The funds helped to improve safeguarding processes at school and helped schools to make better connections with community health and wellbeing services.  

SEND schools used their Innovation Fund to further train school staff in specific sensory skills to improve communication with and between pupils; empowering their voices and improving their social and developmental skills.

Resilience Committees are groups of young people carefully selected to co-produce inclusive projects in schools. They are young people who are given a voice, time, resources and permission to make a positive change for all of their school community. Resilience Committees improve confidence, independence, engagement and have shown to have a positive correlation with attainment and mental health. So, why not?

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