Primary Outreach (DSPL3) team

DSPL3 Primary Outreach Manager - Karen Bent (karen.bent@riversesc.herts.sch.uk) 
Outreach teachers -Jackie Richardson, Lauren Ward, Laura Hutchings
Senior Outreach workers - Ershen Mehmet
Outreach worker - Rebecca King, Nikki Smith
Family Support Worker - Syreeta Oakes

Serving Hertford, Ware, Bishops Stortford, Buntingford and surrounding areas

Rivers Educational Support Centre provides a targeted and specialist primary behaviour service in DSPL3, for primary aged pupils, with high level social emotional and mental health needs, (SEMH).

This includes:
• Outreach support for schools and individual pupils with SEMH.
• Intervention for pupils at risk of fixed term and permanent exclusion.
• Provision of tuition from the 6th day of permanent exclusion, in a mainstream school.
 
This service will:
• Work in partnership with staff in local Primary Schools to model approaches, offer  strategies and support staff to create personalised resources for individual pupils and small groups. 
• Work directly with pupils, 1:1 or in small groups.  
• Work with school staff to identify individual pupils' needs and develop a graduated response. 
• Work in partnership with school staff and parents/carers to create personalised support agreements to meet the needs of pupils with SEMH, who are at risk of fixed term and permanent exclusion. 
• Offer bespoke support for school staff, for example: understanding individual pupil behaviour, writing Risk Reduction Plans, whole class and individual strategies and solution focused meetings. 
• Facilitate half-termly Network Meetings for staff working with pupils with Education Health and Care plans or HNF funding, for SEMH.