Individual Student Welfare
Individual student welfare includes
- school health care services
- student welfare psychologist and social worker services
- multi-disciplinary student welfare that relates to an individual student
The aim of individual student welfare is to monitor and improve the student’s
- development
- health
- well-being
- learning
It is important to secure early support and to prevent problems.
Individual student welfare is based on
- the student’s participation, wishes and opinions, taking into account the student’s level of development and other personal conditions
- open, respectful and confidential interaction
- avoiding haste so that the student feels they are being heard
- regulations about confidentiality and handing over information
Specialist multidisciplinary team
- is always based on the written individualized consent of the student and also the guardian if need be
- with the student’s or guardian’s consent the group may include a school nurse, school social worker, psychologist, doctor, guidance counsellor, teacher, special education teacher, or some other key person in that situation
- additionally, the group members have the right to ask for advice from specialists when necessary
- the person whose duty it is calls the team together, acts as the chairperson and gets the written consent of the student and/or guardian
- often the team is called together by the school social worker, psychologist, nurse or doctor, but other members of the team can also call the team together
- the person in charge makes sure that the meeting is recorded in the student’s personal student welfare report, which is stored in the way stipulated by the law
- the student welfare report includes the following information:
- the student’s name, social security number, place of domicile and contact information
- name and contact information of the guardian or other legal representative
- date of the entry, and name and position of the author
- people who participated in the meeting and their positions
- subject and initiator of the issue
- procedures implemented during the determination of the student’s situation
- implemented procedures, including co-operation with various quarters
- previous and current supporting measures
- particulars about the processing of the issue in the team meeting
- made decision and the plans for their implementation
- quarters responsible for the implementation and follow-up
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