Every Child Matters

Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19.

The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to:

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

This means that the organisations involved with providing services to children will be teaming up in new ways, sharing information and working together, to protect children and young people from harm and help them achieve what they want in life. Children and young people will have far more say about issues that affect them as individuals and collectively.

How does The Safety Box compliment ECM?

1. Be Healthy

• Combining movement skills in a variety of physical activity.

• Understanding the importance of ‘warm up and cool down exercises’ and specific safety issues that maximize performance and participation.

• Demonstrating personal skill improvement.

• To develop gross psycho-motor skills through a range of relevant movement based activities.

• To develop communication skills, encouraging the use of correct terminology, to promote effective co-operation.

2. Stay Safe

• Identifying strategies to minimize potentially dangerous situations.

• Identifying available information and support services related to sexual health concerns

• Staying safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and sexual exploitation

• Teaching how to stay safe from bullying and discrimination

• How to stay safe from crime and anti-social behaviour in and out of school

3. Enjoy and achieve

• The Safety Box Course aims to provide for pupils’ self-confidence through an ability to manage themselves successfully in a variety of situations, hence increasing academic performance.

•  A balance of individual, team, co-operative and competitive activities aims to cater for individual pupil’s needs and abilities.

• The scheme of work is based on progressive learning objectives which, combined with varied and flexible teaching styles, endeavor to provide appropriate, stimulating, challenging and enjoyable learning situations for all pupils

4. Make a positive contribution

• Describing the impact of non-verbal and verbal responses.

• Using assertiveness techniques to avoid escalating conflict.

• Help pupils develop skills such as understanding another’s point of view, working in a group, sticking at things when they get difficult, resolving conflict and managing worries.

• Engage in law-abiding and positive behaviour in and out of school

• Help pupils with developing positive relationships and choose not to bully and discriminate

• Help develop self-confidence