What is Case Management?
Case Management is available to schools that have an individual Service child or a very small number of Service children with a specific need related to the impact of their Armed Forces lifestyle. Case Management is a short-term intervention, managed by the SSCE Cymru team, working with schools and local authorities (LA) to identify support that could be accessed to overcome the challenges that the individual child or small groups of Service children may be facing.
Case Management can be accessed by schools who have Service child(ren) who fall under this Welsh Government definition:
A ‘Service child’ has parent(s) or person(s) exercising parental responsibility who is/are Service personnel serving:
• In HM Regular or Reserve Armed Forces – Royal Navy and Royal Marines; British Army and Royal Air Force
Or
• Is an Armed Forces Veteran who has been in Service within the past two years
• One of their parents died whilst serving in the Armed Forces and the learner has received a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme.
Please contact the SSCE Cymru team if you have a Service child(ren) who fall(s) outside of this definition.
Why Case Management?
The Armed Forces lifestyle can have an academic, social and emotional impact on Service children. These experiences include (but are not limited to) mobility, separation, parental deployment and parental transition. Issues may subsequently arise that require support outside of the capacity of the school and/or local authority. Please see some Case Management examples below.
How does Case Management work?
SSCE Cymru will case manage this support – coordinating interventions, monitoring progress, and measuring the impact with each school. SSCE Cymru may be able to access funding to support these interventions when required. The Case Management support from SSCE Cymru is available for schools to access at any point of the year.