place2be annual review 2012 / 2013

Annual Review 2012/13

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Contents

Introduction from HRH The Duchess of Cambridge 01Chief Executive’s report 02Chairman’s statement 04Governance 05Our work with children 06Case studies 14Place2Talk 21Our work with parents 22Our work with schools and their communities 25Professional training and qualifications 26Financial statements 28Looking ahead 30Fundraising 31Acknowledgements 33Donation form 34

To enhance the wellbeing and prospects of children and their families by providing access to therapeutic and emotional support in schools, using a proven model backed up by research and training.

A world where children have the opportunity to grow up with prospects rather than problems.

PerseveranceIntegrityCompassionCreativity

Our mission

Our vision

Our values

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The theme of transition is central to Place2Be’s work. We support children, young people and their parents to move from one stage of their lives to another by becoming more resilient – to help them acquire the “bounce-back ability” they need to meet the sometimes hugely daunting challenges they face in their everyday lives.

The greatest indicator of future success is a child’s sense of self. Place2Be can change a child’s sense of self. ”Class teacher

of children in each school attended Place2Talk, our self-referral service, in 2012/13. In some schools as many as 80% of children use the service.

36%

Thanks to the commitment, integrity and professionalism of our staff and Volunteer Counsellors, we are flourishing, extending our reach and building our profile as the leader in our field. I am incredibly proud of what we have collectively accomplished, and even more thrilled when I think of the huge potential we have yet to tap into and all there is for us to achieve.

We are extremely grateful to all our current supporters who have enabled us to deliver our vital services where they make the biggest difference. The need for our services is already great and it is growing rapidly in these troubled times. Our ambitious plans to extend our services are driven by this need. To achieve our goals, we must secure more funding and look forward to counting on the support of funders who share our passion to improve children’s life chances and help them fulfil their potential.

Benita Refson OBE Chief Executive

those working with children, for example delivering training to Newly Qualified Teachers in conjunction with Teach First and Achievement for All.

We have been through many transitions since I put the wheels in motion for Place2Be to become an independent charity in 1993. For the last 19 years I have been privileged to lead the development of the organisation to where it is today. Now the time is right for me to pass on the baton to the next generation. I am delighted to let you know that following a rigorous selection process by our Board of Trustees, helped by two highly respected external advisers, Catherine Roche has been appointed as my successor, becoming Deputy Chief Executive and taking up the post of Chief Executive on 1 January 2014. I will remain connected with Place2Be as a Trustee and as non-executive President, supporting the organisation in any and every way that I can.

A s an organisation we believe that we are good at transition and the past

year has given us abundant opportunities to demonstrate this. The elements of our landscape – schools, local and national government, education and mental health policy and funding – are undergoing transitions of their own. Meanwhile, the economy has yet to recover, as so many of the communities in which we work can attest as they struggle with deep and enduring hardship. These are places where children arrive in school with wet clothes because they only have one change of attire and it hasn’t had time to dry overnight after being washed, or where a Head teacher buys shoes and winter coats for her pupils because their parents cannot afford them.

Our impact data provides ample quantitative evidence for the positive difference our services make: two-thirds of children supported by Place2Be had improved emotional and mental wellbeing according to their teachers. Equally if not more important are other measures that we simply cannot translate into numbers. As one Head teacher said of Place2Be, “I know it works when the light has come on again in a child’s eyes.”

Place2Be’s robust and scalable national model of school-based mental health and emotional support services has received recognition in the past year. We are extremely proud and delighted that HRH The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen to become our Royal Patron, shining a spotlight on children’s mental health and the importance of intervening early. The tremendous contribution of our hundreds of Volunteer Counsellors was recognised by the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award.

With over £1 million funding from The Royal Foundation and Comic Relief, we launched the M-Pact Plus programme with Action on Addiction which will provide support for families dealing with substance misuse in four areas of England over two years. We announced a partnership with Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation, whose funding of up to £2 million will enable us to extend our work in secondary schools to reach up to 25,000 11-to-14-year-olds by 2018. We won a tender to extend our work from two primary schools in Glasgow to 15 schools. We are also collaborating with leading organisations to share our expertise as a leading provider of professional qualifications for

On average

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Chief Executive’s report

Place2Be has a clinically proven, robust model for its work supporting children and adults. Maintaining consistent high quality is vital for the organisation.

My involvement with Place2Be began in 1995 and it has been a privilege to be involved in its development.

children attended over P lace2Be has a series of interlocking measures in place to monitor quality

across our various activities, including safeguarding, counselling practice, school relations, training, management and governance.

We gather, analyse and use evidence to challenge and continuously improve our services and demonstrate accountability to our commissioners, funders and school communities. We are responding to schools’ focus on attainment by examining and communicating the impact of our work on pupils’ learning and progression – evidence that Place2Be’s services contribute

to closing the gap for children especially in highly deprived and disadvantaged areas – and sharing this evidence to feed into the policy agenda.

Place2Be frequently works with the most vulnerable children and parents. We have clear processes for dealing with child and adult protection concerns that arise during our work. All staff and volunteers undergo rigorous recruitment processes, including reference checks, and Disclosure and Barring Service clearance, plus they receive training which focuses on child protection in a counselling setting.

In these challenging times of constrained budgets and economic stagnation, it is

especially gratifying to see Place2Be maintaining its steady course, delivering high quality services whose value is recognised by the Head teachers who commission them, our many funders and most importantly by the beneficiaries themselves: the children, parents, teachers and school staff who access them.

The year 2012/13 marked another exciting chapter in Place2Be’s development as we continued to extend our services to reach more of the increasing number of children and families who urgently need our support. We provided a full-service model in 175 schools reaching 67,000 children; this year we will be working in 200 schools and reaching 75,000 children. In order to sustain this growth, we will be recruiting more staff and Volunteer Counsellors, many of whom first come into contact with Place2Be through our range of clinical Professional Qualifications courses. Our reputation as the leader in our field is growing and we are increasingly contributing to the dialogue on early intervention with our expertise and impact data.

Place2Be’s unique model of integrated early intervention support is woven into the fabric of schools and their communities. Trust is central to our effectiveness – trust that we take great care in building and sustaining. Our trusted School Project Managers and Volunteer Counsellors provide easily accessible, non-stigmatising support where it is needed most, to children and parents, who often have nowhere else to turn and whose potential will otherwise be limited.

One of the London primary schools in which we work recently received an Outstanding Ofsted rating; Place2Be’s contribution was specifically cited: “Care shown for vulnerable pupils is outstanding, enabling them to feel happy and safe in school and make the same rapid progress as their peers.” This crystallises our vision: a world where children have the opportunity to grow up with prospects rather than problems.

Michael Fowle CBE Chairman of the Trustees

3,285

54,300sessions of one-to-one counselling in 2012/13.

Seeing you makes me feel safe and I can talk to you about my feelings.” Child describing Place2Talk

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GovernanceChairman’s statement

There is a widespread and pressing need for Place2Be’s school-based early intervention services.

Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling support makes a huge difference to how children feel about themselves and their situations. It helps them to understand their own feelings about difficult things, helps them to build resilience which is something needed for successful learning, whether it’s academic, social or emotional.”Head teacher

One in ten children aged between 5 and 16 years (three in every classroom)

has a mental health problem, and many continue to have mental health problems into adulthood. 1

• Children in the poorest households are three times more likely to have a mental illness than children living in the best-off households. 2

• Rates of mental health problems among children increase as they reach adolescence. Disorders affect 10.4% of boys aged 5 -10, rising to 12.8% of boys aged 11-15, and 5.9% of girls aged 5 -10, rising to 9.65% of girls aged 11 -15. 3

• A substantial body of research demonstrates that poor mental health in children leads to poor concentration on schoolwork, attitudes creating barriers to learning, absence from school, drug and tobacco misuse, and poor academic grades. 4

• Trials of psychological treatments have shown that they make a positive difference to children’s mental health. 5

• Mental ill health represents up to 23% of the total burden of ill health in the UK – the largest single cause of disability. 1

Place2Be provides integrated school-based mental health and emotional support services without stigmatising children,

young people or families and at a point where they need it most. This support effectively removes the emotional barriers to learning and prevents the downward spiral that can lead to low aspirations, poor educational achievement, truancy and exclusion from school. It helps improve children’s classroom learning and academic progress. It builds children’s, young people’s and families’ resilience, providing them with brighter prospects and more hopeful futures.

BenchmarkingPlace2Be is a member of the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), a collaboration of mental health specialists from over 70 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the UK. Each year Place2Be receives a report comparing service outcomes with the rest of CORC. In 2011/12, parents and children rated our service more positively on problem improvement and helpfulness than other services. 6

Measuring children’s outcomes Place2Be uses the Goodman’s Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (the SDQ). This recognised, validated tool assesses children’s behavioural, emotional and social wellbeing before and after they receive counselling support. Teachers, parents and children complete these questionnaires. Place2Be School Project Managers at each

1 HM Government (2011) “No health without mental health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages.”

2 Office of Health Economics and the Mental Health Foundation (2005) “Lifetime impacts. Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health: understanding the lifetime impacts.”

3 Mental Health Foundation (2007) “The Fundamental Facts: The Latest Facts and Figures on Mental Health.”

4 Elizabeth Washbrook, Carol Propper, and Kapil Sayal. “Pre-school hyperactivity/attention problems and educational outcomes in adolescence: prospective longitudinal study.” BJP October 2013 203:265-271

5 Cooper, M. (2009) “Counselling in UK secondary schools: a comprehensive review of audit and evaluation data.”

6 CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium (2013). Place2Be Service Level Outcomes 2011-2012.

Place2Be explores with the pupils how they might make things better for themselves. This empowers the pupils to make their own changes to improve their emotional wellbeing.”Head teacher

school obtain parents’ consent to collect data on their child. At the end of each academic year, children’s outcomes are analysed as anonymised data.

How we work

The referral and counselling process Children are referred by teachers, their parents, carers or allied professionals to Place2Be’s School Project Manager for an assessment. Place2Be only works with children whose parents or carers have given written consent. As counselling takes place during school hours, the attendance rate is exceptionally high.

One-to-one counsellingOnce it is determined that a child would benefit from counselling, a counsellor meets with the child for weekly one-to-one sessions of 50 minutes. Individual weekly counselling sessions can span a school term to a whole academic year. Place2Be’s trained counsellors work in the way that is most appropriate for each child. For younger children, this involves therapeutic approaches which encourage the child to express her or himself in non-verbal ways, for example through artwork

and play. In some smaller schools we offer a one-day-a-week service called A Place For Counsellors, which provides our one-to-one counselling service.

Group counselling We provide short-term group work on issues such as transition, bereavement, friendship or self-esteem.

Brief counselling (secondary schools only)We provide up to six short, solution-focused sessions for young people in secondary schools.

Place2Talk This is a universal service where children can refer themselves, come alone or with their friends to speak to a counsellor during break times. Open to all pupils, the service is used by an average of 36% of children in schools each year. Often just a few sessions can help children cope with a particular concern. Place2Talk may also act as an initial safety net for children with bigger issues who are then referred for one-to-one counselling. Because Place2Talk is offered to all children, one-to-one counselling is de-stigmatised.


Our work with children

80% 79%65% 68% 70% 70%

84% 82%

42.5%

20.7%

49.5%

63.7%

Children in the ‘at-risk’ SDQ abnormal clinical range, according to teachers

Teacher ratings

Teachers rated the improvement of children receiving one-to-one support from Place2Be as follows:

Parent ratings

Parents rated the improvement of their children receiving one-to-one support from Place2Be as follows:

Percentage of children with the most severe emotional difficulties showing improvement following intervention

Percentage of children with the most severe emotional difficulties showing improvement following intervention

Percentage of children who were better able to focus on learningafter intervention

Percentage of children who became less of a burden on the teacher or class post-intervention

in primary schools

in secondary schools

Socio-demographic profile of the children Place2Be supported (one-to-one and group counselling)

1.2% 0.8%

Looked after by a Local Authority

44.0% 42.8%

Were from lone parent households

9.2% 7.2%

Subject to a ChildProtection Plan

52.3% 50.0%

Receiving freeschool meals

Were from black and minority ethnic (BME) families

44.0%

58.0%

Had some degree of Special Educational Needs

in primary schools

in secondary schools


Our work with children continued

A couple of weeks ago at lunchtime I got a message over my radio asking me to go to Year 4 because Shane, who is 8, had kidnapped his teacher and was holding him hostage in the classroom.

Not an entirely unique situation, but not an everyday occurrence even for my school. However, expecting the unexpected is part of the job. So I set off along the corridor asking my secretary to be ready.

When I arrived Shane was standing blocking the classroom door – fists clenched, red-faced, using some very descriptive and graphic language to make it quite clear to the teacher exactly what he was going to do to him if he tried to leave.

I managed after a few minutes’ stand-off to push my way into the class and asked Shane if his now-very-relieved teacher could leave, and tried to find out what

was wrong. Shane wouldn’t speak to me and just stood shaking. At that point, Sarah, Shane’s Place2Be counsellor, arrived. Within five minutes Shane was sitting in a safe, familiar environment with a highly experienced clinically trained counsellor.

Shane and his counsellor then began to work out what was making him behave in such a disturbed and disturbing way. Place2Be were there and provided instant clinical expertise, skills even the most experienced teachers don’t posses. The alternative statutory children’s mental health services are very good, but with a waiting list of roughly 20 weeks, not really an option here.

Shane was behaving in this way because the previous evening he and his mum and sisters had been arrested in a well-known discount store for shoplifting and taken in the back of a van to the police station. As the youngest at 8, mum

had given him the responsible job of carrying out all the stolen goods – because he was not old enough to be charged.

He was terrified that he was going to go to prison like his dad. With Sarah’s help, Shane survived that ordeal and was back in the class learning the following morning. Sarah and her team are there every day in my school to help the hundreds of children living chaotic, complicated and dysfunctional lives – ensuring that my teachers can get on with the job of teaching and that the children are given the chance to learn.

For thousands of schools across the country this sort of extreme behaviour is a daily reality – just like dealing with lost homework or complaints about school dinners. Domestic violence, alcohol and drug misuse and criminality, all magnified by chronic social deprivation, create living conditions which have a catastrophic impact on the mental health of thousands

of children and their capacity to learn – diminishing their life chances with each passing day.

The long-term damage caused by poor mental health in childhood creates a legacy that I believe – unless we act now – will socially, morally and financially bankrupt us as a nation. 75,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales currently have access to Place2Be.

It’s only thanks to Place2Be’s supporters that we can make a difference. Your support makes a significant difference to the lives of children like Shane who would otherwise have little or no hope, and ensures that thousands more children have access to the sort of specialist help Shane was able to receive.”

Simon Marshall is a Head teacher from Sunderland in a Place2Be school.

In a speech originally given at a fundraising event for Place2Be, Simon explains why Place2Be is invaluable in helping vulnerable children across the UK.


Our work with children continued

Our work with primary schools

In 2012/13 Place2Be reached a total school population of 65,047 in 170 schools in 20 areas across the UK.

One-to-one counselling• 4,038 referrals.

• 2,682 clinical assessments undertaken.

• 3,067 children received one-to-one counselling and attended 51,582 sessions.1

Group counselling• 756 children were seen in group

interventions and 771 group sessions were held.

Place2Talk• 23,700 children made almost

80,000 visits to Place2Talk, our self-referral service.

Our work with secondary schools

In 2012/13 Place2Be reached a total school population of 4,720 in eleven schools in nine areas across the UK.

One-to-one counselling• 315 referrals.

• 192 clinical assessments undertaken.

• 218 children received one-to-one counselling and attended 2,754 sessions.

• 39 children received brief counselling (typically offered for up to six sessions); 265 sessions were held.

Group counselling• 26 children were seen in group

interventions and 35 group sessions were held.

Place2Talk• 1,057 children made almost

4,280 visits to Place2Talk, our self-referral service.

1 The number of children receiving interventions is higher than the number of clinical assessments undertaken as some of these children will have been assessed in the previous year.

Place2Talk analysisOn average, 36% of children in each school attended the self-referral service in 2012/13. Of the 24,702 children who accessed Place2Talk, and for whom information was available, one in three attended only once and two-thirds of children attended more than once.

A higher proportion of girls accessed the service than boys – 62.5% girls and 37.5% boys, and girls were more likely to use the service more than once.

Friendship was the topic children most frequently wanted to discuss, raised by two-thirds of children who visited Place2Talk. Many children also talked about emotional problems, family and school issues.

There was also a difference between the issues raised by primary school children compared to secondary school children. For example, friendships and cultural issues were more likely to be discussed by primary school children, whereas eating disorders, sexuality and emotional issues were more likely to be discussed by secondary school children .

children visited Place2Talk in 2012/13.

24,757In 2012/13, Place2Be provided a full-service model to

175 schools and its one-day-a-week model called A Place for Counsellors to

6 schools, in a total of

181 schools, an increase of

20 schools from 2011/12.

Issues raised by children at Place2Talk


Our work with children continued Place2Talk

28% as being in full- or part- time employment; 22% as unemployed and 5% as students.

Parents’ outcomesPlace2Be uses the CORE-OM – a measure employed to assess psychological distress – to evaluate the impact of our work with parents. This widely used and validated tool assesses parents before, during and after they receive counselling support.

Outcomes for the 147 parents who completed an intervention in 2012/13 are presented below:

• There was an improvement in 132 parents’ Total Scores (comprised of subscales relating to Wellbeing, Problems and Symptoms, Functioning and Risk) between pre-and post-intervention (90% of parents’ mental health had improved after receiving support).

• The mean Total Score for parents pre-intervention was 52 (clinical range). This reduced to 24 (non-clinical range) post-intervention.

• Of the 115 parents who were affected by mental health disorders before intervention, 75% showed no mental health disorder symptoms post-intervention.

Katrina

Katrina, mother of two, was very depressed. Her abusive partner, a heavy gambler, often disappeared for weeks at a time.

Katrina struggled to set boundaries with her sons, both of whom received support from Place2Be. The eldest was withdrawn and being bullied; the younger boy was aggressive and at risk of exclusion.

Katrina wanted to “live happily ever after” with her partner who promised he would change his behaviour but always let her down. To soothe herself, she drank excessively. She was initially very anxious about seeking help because she was afraid her children would be taken away from her by social services.

Working with her counsellor, she explored her acceptance of emotional and physical abuse which stemmed from her childhood. Her dad had left the family when she was young and she had cared for her alcoholic mother.

She was able to identify parallels between how she felt as a child and how she felt in the present. With the growing awareness that she was “dragging her sons on an emotional rollercoaster ride”, she accepted that she needed to separate from her husband, reduce her use of alcohol and retrain to find a better job. By the time her counselling concluded, she felt confident in her role as a parent and was successfully setting boundaries with her children and now ex-partner.

She had stopped drinking at home and limited herself to consuming a couple of drinks twice a month. She was training as a veterinary assistant. “Our home is a peaceful one now,” she says. “These sessions might have saved my life.”

In 2012/13 our School Project Managers spent over 4,900 hours with parents supporting

their work with children and 1,900 hours in other work with parents.

In 2012/13, A Place for Parents, our dedicated one-to-one parent counselling service, operated in 12 areas and supported parents from 81 schools and four children’s centres across the UK.

We continued to extend our work with Parents in the Early Years. We ran A Place for Parents in children’s centres, and provided training for staff. We also continued to develop our support for parents by exploring and developing group work for parents. We ran EPEC (Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities) parent groups in conjunction with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) and Incredible Years® parent groups in south and southeast London.

A Place for ParentsA total of 311 parents were referred and assessed with 90% (281 parents) taking up the service. The percentage of parents taking up the service following assessment continues to rise: in 2010/11 80% of parents took up the service and in 2011/12 this figure was 88%.

A total of 447 parents received counselling during the 2012/13 academic year.

5,440 sessions were offered; 3,938 (72%) sessions were attended.

Issues discussed by parents• Depression was the most

frequently discussed issue; 45% of parents raised this during their intervention.

• Divorce/separation was raised as an issue by 44% of parents.

• Bereavement was reported to be an issue by 32% of parents.

• Domestic violence was raised as an issue by 36% of parents.

• Financial/debt crisis was reported to be an issue by 28% of parents.

• Childhood abuse (physical and emotional) was raised as an issue still impacting on their lives by 34% of parents.

• Problems with prisoners in the family were reported by 26% of parents, an increase from 10% in the previous academic year.

Socio-demographic profile of the parents referred to A Place for ParentsA total of 293 parents started A Place for Parents intervention in 2012/13:

• 94% were female.

• 30% were from BME groups.

• 49% were lone parents.

• 45% of parents described themselves as homemakers;

Recognising the critical role that parents play in their children’s emotional wellbeing, Place2Be helps parents, grandparents and carers to be more at ease in their parenting roles and better able to develop positive and supportive relationships with their children and the school.

of parents raised depression as an issue.

of parents raised the issue of problems with prisoners in the family, an increase from 10% in the previous year.

parents received counselling in 2012/13.

45%

26%

447


Our work with parents

This reduces the time and attention that school leadership and staff spend

away from their core teaching duties. Place2Be also shares its expertise in partnership with leading organisations in its field.

Place2Think

Delivered by senior Place2Be clinicians, Place2Think is a consultation service for teachers and school staff to help them understand children’s behaviour and find effective solutions and strategies to support the child, the family and the school professional. Place2Be also offers training sessions addressing themes relating to children’s emotional wellbeing in schools, such as safeguarding, attachment, understanding risks and resilience, working effectively with parents, resolving conflict and supporting transitions.

Working in partnership

Place2Be has been an integral member of the BOND (Better Outcomes, New Delivery) Consortium, a Department for Education-funded two-year sector-led programme to build the capacity of voluntary and community sector organisations

to deliver early intervention mental health support to children and young people. Place2Be is a core member of the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, contributing expertise and helping to set the Coalition’s priorities.

Working closely with the Cabinet Office, Place2Be is supporting the new Commissioning Academy, providing advice and help to senior level public sector commissioners. We are working as part of a learning collaborative to implement the Department of Health’s Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYPIAPT) Programme in Croydon and Lewisham. This is a transformational change programme to improve the outcomes and experience of children receiving psychological support.

Multi-agency work is intrinsic to our school-based model. Our School Project Managers in primary schools spent over 13,000 hours with school staff and over 2,300 hours working with other agencies such as CAMHS and Social Services. Our School Project Managers in secondary schools spent around 1,000 hours with school staff and 164 hours working with other agencies such as CAMHS and Social Services.

Place2Be draws on its depth and range of experience to provide teachers and school staff with the insights and skills to be able to effectively manage emotional, behavioural and discipline issues.

Place2Think provides a unique and supportive service which gives teachers a space to talk and a real sense of being listened to, helping them gain a sense of perspective when they feel overwhelmed. They solve their own problems with the specialist guidance of a highly skilled and expert practitioner.”Special Educational Needs Coordinator

of parents who received counselling raised domestic violence as an issue.

of parents who received counselling reported financial/debt crisis to be an issue.

36%

28% Marcus

Marcus, who had lost his job, struggled with his three children’s behaviour at home. His relationship with his wife was very difficult due to financial problems and communication issues. He lacked confidence as a person and as a parent.

The home atmosphere was tense and violent arguments broke out daily. The children copied their parents’ behaviours by having tantrums and using bad language and were underperforming in school.

Counselling focused on helping Marcus become aware that he and his wife, as parents, had to take responsibility for their children’s behaviour. He started spending quality time with each child, doing activities and talking to them much more. By the end of his counselling the children’s behaviour had improved a great deal and they were calmer, more polite and shared their feelings about what they did not like at home.

This enabled Marcus to make further positive changes with them. His relationship with his wife is now calmer and he feels more empowered. The children respond lovingly to their father and enjoy their special time with him.

“I have noticed so much positive change in my children’s behaviour since I started to behave in a different way myself; I stopped shouting and I apologise when I make mistakes; now they do exactly the same. This has proven to me that I am the key for positive change in my family,” he says.

The school has reported positive changes in all children’s behaviour, their academic achievements and their self-confidence.


Our work with schools and their communitiesOur work with parents continued

opportunities to benefit from organisation-wide expertise via our Head of Safeguarding and Senior Management team. Our two new Educational Psychologists, supported with funding from the Department for Education, are further extending our expertise in working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

We developed and introduced the Clinical Leadership Development Programme for staff. The programme takes advantage of pro bono assistance from corporate supporters, as well as the expertise of senior Place2Be staff, to increase the skill sets of School Project Managers and prepare them for more senior management roles in the future. We delivered two iterations of our suite of Line Management training programmes to our staff to ensure that we manage our services and people appropriately and in line with our values.

Edinburgh. 67% of our Level 3 graduates went on to take up Volunteer Counsellor placements and support vulnerable children in Place2Be schools.

We also piloted the Level 4 Certificate in Counselling Children (Practice), a specialist qualification that recognises and accredits the entire Place2Be Volunteer Counsellor placement and training experience. In 2013/14 we will be rolling out the Certificate to offer it to our Volunteer Counsellors across the country.

Training for Place2Be staff and Volunteer Counsellors

Place2Be offers continuing professional development to staff and volunteers to support clinical practice in our schools. A total of 2,594 training places were taken up by staff and volunteers in 2012/13.

In 2012/13 we enhanced our compulsory child protection and safeguarding training, giving volunteers greater

Training for Working with Children and Families

In 2012/13 we trained 1,255 professionals on topics related to supporting the emotional wellbeing of children and families.

We piloted the Talented Teacher Programme (TTP) in Ealing, Brent, Croydon and Greenwich. The TTP builds on Place2Be’s knowledge and expertise to provide a unique package of training and support for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs), to enhance their ability to support children’s emotional wellbeing, maximise engagement and improve classroom management and the effectiveness of teaching, thereby having a positive impact on the future prospects of the children they work with. 48 NQTs took part in the programme’s first year.

We also rolled out our Mentoring Programme, training Sixth Form students to provide support to younger pupils in local primary schools. Students from Rugby School and Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh took part in the training.

Department for Education funding enabled us to continue delivery of our ‘Working with Parents’ training.

We ran 40 days in 2012/13 in Southwark, Nottingham, Croydon, Medway, Shoreditch, Greenwich, Brighton, Wandsworth, Manchester, East Lancashire and County Durham. We also delivered the training to Teach First primary participants.

Professional QualificationsPlace2Be provides a suite of specialist clinical Professional Qualifications courses, ranging from the introductory Taster Day to the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Counselling Children in Schools. Our courses are validated and accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB), the University of East London (UEL) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

We welcomed 346 participants onto our Taster Days – a 29% increase from 2011/12. 194 people went on to take up places on longer Professional Qualifications training courses. In response to demand, we increased the number of Level 2 Award in Counselling Skills for Working with Children courses we ran in London. The Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills for Working with Children ran three times in London, as well as in Leeds and

Place2Be offers consultancy support, advice and workplace learning to teachers and school staff. We are a leading provider of specialist training and university-validated professional qualifications to those who work clinically with children, helping to build capacity in local communities.

Really good to have time to sit down and map out issues with one family; share with other professionals and look at gaps in support; get fresh ideas to move forward.”Course participant

I have grown as a person, being more able to be empathetic, kind, determined, supportive and playful in my environment. But also enriched with all the knowledge around counselling with children.”Level 3 Course Participant

My days spent with Place2Be have become the highlight of my week. It is a privilege to get to know the children and their stories, and I am constantly impressed with their strength and perseverance.”Volunteer Counsellor

I liked everything about the course. It was great to meet all the participants and share good practice. I was put at ease by the trainer and felt my views were listened to.”Course participant


Professional training and qualifications

Balance Sheet

Years ending

31 March 2013

£’000

31 March 2012

£’000

Fixed Assets 2,077 2,146Current AssetsDebtors 607 271Current asset investments 196 179Cash at bank and in hand 4,587 4,248

5,390 4,698

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year (2,124) (1,154)

Net Current Assets 3,266 3,544

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year (1,241) (1,314)

Net Assets 4,102 4,376

FundsRestricted funds 139 440Unrestricted fundsDesignated Property fund 1,061 1,061Designated Development & Strategic Priorities fund 589 589Designated Base fund 2,200 2,200Unrestricted Charitable funds 113 86

Total Charity funds 4,102 4,376

Statement of Financial Activities

Years ending

31 March 2013

£’000

31 March 2012

£’000

Incoming ResourcesDonations and grants 2,453 2,929Investment income 75 61School services 4,856 4,413

Total Incoming Resources 7,384 7,403

Resources ExpendedCost of generating funds 390 348School services 7,172 6,518Governance costs 113 89

Total Resources Expended 7,675 6,955

Unrealised gain/(loss) on revaluation of investments 17 1

Net Movements In Funds (274) 449Funds at the start of the year 4,376 3,927

Funds at the end of the year 4,102 4,376

School services (66%)Investment income (1%)Donations and grants (33%)

School services (94%)Governance costs (1%)Cost of generating funds (5%)

School services (60%)Investment income (1%)Donations and grants (39%)

School services (94%)Governance costs (1%)Cost of generating funds (5%)

Incoming Resources Costs

2013 20132012 2012

The figures shown on these pages reflect a true summary of reported results.

Full information can be obtained from the Annual Report & Accounts for the years ending 31 March 2013, and 31 March 2012, which have been audited, approved by Place2Be’s Board of Trustees, and lodged with Companies House and the Charity Commissions of England & Wales and Scotland.


Financial statements – summary of reported results

Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation, our most significant long-standing partners, awarded

Place2Be a donation of up to £2 million over five years, its largest to date, which will enable us to extend our services to 70 secondary schools by 2018.

We received over £1 million of funding from The Royal Foundation and Comic Relief to launch the M-Pact Plus programme with Action on Addiction which will provide support for families dealing with substance misuse in four areas of England over two years.

This spring we began our year-long partnership with the Incisive Media Foundation. We will benefit from fundraising at Incisive Media’s award events and from increased profile through gifted advertising space and mail-outs to subscribers.

We set up the City Committee, a group of professionals from across the City who have come together to share their expertise, resources and contacts. Chaired by Jojo Sanders, Director of Equity Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the City Committee is supporting Place2Be in an impressive variety of ways.

In October 2012, 30 individuals bravely abseiled from Edinburgh’s Forth Rail Bridge. We send thanks to our challenge event participants in Scotland: our friends at Tesco Bank, Skyscanner, Miller Group, Lothian and Borders Police and Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, whose teams helped to raise over £18,000.

In November 2012, 250 guests attended Duerr’s “Mamma Mia” Charity Ball, generously spearheaded by Mark and

1. Expand our impact on primary schoolsWe will continue to deliver our full and effective service and by 2016 aim to be supporting 85,000 children in primary schools across the UK. We will continue to develop our practice and ensure that our outcomes are aligned with the needs of schools.

2. Expand our impact in secondary schools We will scale up our work with secondary schools, reaching 20,000 young people annually by 2016. We will refine and deepen our expertise, particularly through the transition years when early intervention can make a real difference.

3. Develop and extend our support for parents We will extend A Place for Parents, our one-to-one counselling service for parents across our primary schools. Working in partnership with Action on Addiction, we will deliver a successful, replicable model to improve outcomes for families seeking to cope with substance misuse.

4. Continue learning and sharing our expertise through training, collaboration and communications We will deliver our suite of Professional Qualifications locally, skilling up the workforce and building professional pathways for children’s counsellors. We will share the learning we gain from our own research and evidence-based practice, and work in collaboration with others to build the expertise of the workforce supporting children and young people in schools and communities.

Place2Be reported £2.5 million of voluntary income in 2012/13. This figure excludes significant cash received in advance for planned charitable activities in the 2013/14 financial year and beyond. We are deeply grateful to each and every one of our supporters for helping to build and ensure the future strength of the organisation.

The demand for Place2Be’s services is already great, and is growing. This demand drives our ambitious plans to expand our impact and reach more children, their families, teachers and school staff. Our priorities for 2013-2016 are to:

out of every £1 we raise is spent on the delivery of our services to children

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Place2Be has become part of the school. It’s really helpful for me as a teacher to know that there is a professional available to talk with the children which makes me feel more secure that what I am doing is right.”Class teacher


FundraisingLooking ahead

Kirkby FoundationKnightsbridge School pupils, parents and teachersKobler TrustLintonwharfe LimitedMartin Connell Charitable TrustMcLaren GroupMercers’ CompanyMerchant Taylors’ CompanyMerchiston Castle School staff, parents and pupilsMiller GroupNewhope TrustNorthern Rock FoundationOakdale TrustPaperchase Products LimitedPatricia and Donald Shepherd Charitable TrustPaul Hamlyn FoundationPears FoundationPM Charitable TrustQuintessentially Foundation Rank FoundationRayne FoundationRGA Family TrustRobertson TrustRS Macdonald Charitable TrustRussell Investments LimitedSir James Knott Trust St George PLC St James’s Place Foundation Stanley FoundationStenhouse FoundationStevenston Charitable TrustTaylor HowesThe Nomura Charitable TrustUBSVictoria Palace staff and management Vivmar FoundationVolant Charitable TrustWaitrose Watson FoundationWeatherford InternationalWilliam Grant & SonsWPPWS Wilson Charitable TrustWychwood TrustZurich Community Trust (UK) Limited

With special thanks to the following individual supporters:

Janet Carter Peter and Annette Dart Dulwich Fun RaisersEdward HocknellTim JamesRebecca MarksRowena and Eric Winkler

And special thanks to our Campaign Board Members:

Jamie BarberDebra CaplanClare CreanBilly DavisVictoria FisherAndrew HowesKaren HowesLaura JamesDavid MarksMarc MeyohasKaren MidgenJohn MoorePolly MooreLorna ParkerSheena PentinRobbie RayneJamie Rugge-PriceJenny SingerGordon SingerSimon SporborgLouise St AldwynDuncan Wilmer

Richard Duerr and stage-managed by Gilly Shaw and Juliet Mitchell. This raised an incredible £25,000 towards Place2Be services in the Greater Manchester area.

Place2Be’s Christmas Carol Concert in December gave guests a truly magical evening, with celebrity readings and a memorable performance by Jamie Cullum. The festive event raised £19,000 in support of our work.

Records were broken in March 2013 when 220 guests attended Place2Be’s prestigious Wine Dinner at Merchant Taylors’ Hall. The Surrey Square Primary School Children’s choir sang and Johnny Goedhuis led a “Wine Man’s Bluff”. The event raised a momentous £200,000. We are truly grateful to all of our guests, and to everyone else who helped make the evening a shining success.

The Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon and London British 10K are key events in our calendar. 58 runners in total accompanied our Chief Executive to raise a combined sum of over £31,000. Our enthusiastic and committed supporters were also out in force at the Santa 5K run, the London2Brighton cycle ride and other events across the country.

Place2Be’s success over the last 19 years has been made possible by the loyal individual and corporate supporters whose faith in our work and huge moral and financial support enables us to grow our services to reach more children. We give you our sincerest thanks.

Knowing that I will be running to provide support for children such as those I listen to each day has been an overwhelming and emotional incentive for me over the last few months.”Member of staff, Machynlleth Primary School, who ran the Welsh Half Marathon in aid of Place2Be

With special thanks to the following organisations for their support:

29th May 1961 Charitable TrustAberdeen Asset Management Charitable FoundationAga RangemasterAimiaAspect Capital LimitedBank of America Merrill LynchBank of EnglandBarbour FoundationBernard Sunley FoundationBig Change Charitable TrustBig Lottery Fund Grant Billy Elliot production and managementBloombergBrook TrustCapital InternationalCharles S French Charitable TrustCity Bridge TrustClifford Chance LLPCoutts Charitable TrustDaisy Chain TrustDepartment for EducationDepartment of HealthDeutsche BankDorset FoundationDulverton TrustDundas & Wilson LLPEllem FoundationEndsleigh Insurance Services LimitedEquitable Charitable TrustFauchier PartnersF. Duerr & Sons LimitedFidelity UK FoundationGannochy Trust Garfield Weston FoundationHarold Hyam Wingate FoundationHelp A Capital ChildHenry Smith CharityHugh Fraser FoundationIncisive Media FoundationImpetus – The Private Equity FoundationJ Coller FoundationJohn Laing Charitable TrustJohn Lyon’s Charity

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