Decider Life Skills are being embedded across Westmorland and Furness schools and services, fostering wellbeing, shared language, and resilience among children, families, and professionals, with growing uptake, positive outcomes, and inspiring community-wide impact.
Fiona Ryan, Public Health Officer for Children, Young People and Families, Westmorland & Furness Council shares their report.
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“I’m really pleased to share a few updates on how The Decider Skills are being embedded across Westmorland and Furness. It’s been an exciting period, full of positive momentum, and we’re already observing encouraging outcomes.”
“What a powerful gift to offer the next generation: the ability to understand and care for their own mental wellbeing.”
Fiona Ryan, Public Health Officer for Children, Young People and Families, Westmorland & Furness Council
REPORT
University of Southampton's report into Upturn Young Person's Service 2017 using The Decider Life Skills.
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CASE STUDY
Evidence suggesting increased mental health and wellbeing problems with children gives a rationale for developing and delivering proactive interventions. The Decider Skills is a framework that aims to teach children skills to manage their emotions and wellbeing. This study looked at whether students who participate in the programme as a whole-school approach would demonstrate an increased ability to recognise and better manage their emotions as rated by themselves, their parents, and their teachers.
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IMPACT STORY
NEWSolutions CIC uses The Decider Life Skills to support children and adults in the community. Over the past 3 years, NEWSolutions has delivered Decider Skills to more than 800 children aged 8–10 across schools in Angus and Aberdeenshire. Here’s what Carole and Rachael, Therapeutic Resource Workers, say about the impact of The Decider Skills
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IMPACT STORY
From a Decider "Pupil Voice" group, Life Skills posters in every classroom, to Decider Skills parent sessions and a feature in The Grouville Gazette!, The Decider Skills has become a core part of the culture at Grouville Primary School. Safeguarding Lead, Emily Bredonchel, shares their thoughts.
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IMPACT STORY
Sarah Sejahtera, Children's Wellbeing Practitioner, shares how The Decider Skills is being implemented across parts of the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wellbeing Ambassadors (selected Year 5 pupils) are trained in The Decider Skills and supported to introduce the Skills to their school in their own way.
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CASE STUDY
Skills+ North Wales, in partnership with Action for Children, delivered a fun and creative workshop on some of the Decider Life Skills to young people. The Circus Skills Day is a powerful example of how Decider Skills can be adapted to suit diverse groups and settings, making emotional learning both accessible and impactful. Read the full case study, submitted by Lisa Hibbert, Service Coordinator for Action for Children.
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IMPACT STORY
During February half term 2017, all staff at Amherst Primary School in Guernsey were taught The Decider Life Skills in order to embed the skills throughout the school.
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Ladies College in Guernsey implemented The Decider Life Schools as a pilot project over the 2015-2016 academic year.
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IMPACT STORY
The Hub teaches The Decider Life Skills to a target group of students
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IMPACT STORY
Chloe Baker–Wyeth, a Registered Nurse from Te Tai Tokerau (Northland Health Board), led a trial using The Decider Life Skills in a Year 6 group of children (ages 9-10) at Morningside School.
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IMPACT STORY
Kintore School created a powerpoint presentation about the impact of The Decider Life Skills (Good2Go) on their school. The school has won a Wellbeing Award for Schools - The Decider Life Skills are an integral part of Kintore Primary School.
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TESTIMONIAL
"We enjoy using the amazing Decider Skills in our ELSA sessions always as they are very useful to reach secondary students in their scenarios to empower them to cope. I have also used students of a whole class to act out the skills for each other in year 7. It was great fun and a big win on the feedback forms. We were able to get counselling sorted for a student that reached out for help on the feedback form - for this reason I want you to know how incorporating the Decider Skills in our ELSA work is helpful to students and adults alike, so thank you. Thank you for all the good you enable." Chena Dingle, ELSA Practitioner & Teaching Assistant
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