Abbot’s Lea launches Positive Behaviour Support service and support hub

Last year, Abbot’s Lea School in Liverpool launched a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) service and hub delivered by its recruited multidisciplinary team of PBS experts.

The school is for students aged 3-19 living with autism and other complex needs.

The hub offers help to students who have become disengaged from education or require extra support.

The team works alongside school staff to improve success of the young people with complex needs.

The PBS service and support hub is led by the school’s positive behaviour support leader, Claire Welch.

Claire has worked with children and adults with complex needs for the past 18 years.

Her vision for the hub is to ensure every child leaves school with important skills, reducing the risk of crisis behaviours.

The hub is located on site of Abbot’s Lea School and has two main functions.

The first space supports students who struggle to attend school in reengaging with education. The second supports students with highly challenging behaviours when these lead to disengagement from their class-based programme of study.

Claire Welch said: “I was excited at the prospect of being able to create a resource that provides bespoke support for the students with most complex needs who don’t always get the help and understanding they deserve.”

Headteacher of Abbot’s Lea School, Ania Hildrey, said: “We have taken it upon ourselves to delve deeper into what the most challenging behaviours might mean, so we can find the right solution for each individual young person in our care.”