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Discuss When working in schools, our team takes time to meet up listen and discuss the challenges the schools face in assisting their students to reach the required performance levels to help them to get the very best results from their education as possible. We discuss their enthusiasm for school and learning, concentration levels, school performance, confidence levels, behaviour referrals and any external issues which may also impact upon their school life. Assess The discussions held provide TWMAD with valuable insight into the pupils who they are considering for our mentoring services. We then decide which TWMAD service would be the [...]

TWMAD are on hand to work in neighbourhoods to engage and understand how life is for young people in the communities which they live. Sadly not a week goes by where we are not reading stories about disillusioned young people becoming involved in negative activities such as Knife Crime, Anti Social Behaviour, Gangs, Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Violence & Crime. Whether you’re a community group or centre, local authority, or police service, TWMAD are on hand to find out what the local issues are and work collectively to try and make the neighbourhood a better place to live for everybody. TWMAD [...]

Following on from this article about the the increase of online sexual abuse against children in Staffordshire, and hearing lots of comments from the young people I work with who in some cases have thousands of friends, hundreds of views, and comments across various social media platforms. It got me thinking about the actions that I take as a parent to try and help my daughter to make sensible use of social media. The set up that we have with her, despite it at times making me her public enemy number 1 works really well. So I thought I would share [...]

On The Brink (OTB) Education has been created to work with youngsters who are falling behind at school or are in serious danger of permanent exclusion or failing their exams. These youngsters are people who are frequently suspended from school or who are disengaged in lessons and distracting others. These youngsters are also often facing challenges outside of school and could be negatively influenced by people outside of school in their community. Our objective is to change their current beliefs and change their ways of thinking. We will work with them to break down any barriers or obstacles that they currently [...]