How to get access to Behaviour Services and Support
Contact your Behaviour Services and Support team through your Special Education regional office through Special Education district offices.
Other behaviour services
For a child aged 3 to 8, the Incredible Years programme may be more suitable.
For students whose behaviour is particularly difficult, and has complex causes possibly including intellectual impairment, contact the Intensive Wraparound Service .
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) covers 10 behaviour services for children and students of all.
Behaviour Services and Support is for students with extreme behaviour difficulties
The service is for students in years 1 to 10 who behave in a way that:
- significantly affects their learning
- risks their safety or the safety of other people
- gets in the way of positive relationships with other people.
How Behaviour Services and Support works
A caseworker works with the teacher and school. They also involve the parents or caregivers. Together you explore what may be contributing to the student’s behaviour. You work together on developing and implementing an individual behaviour plan. Parents and caregivers are part of this too. And a kaitakawaenga may also work with the team.
If the student needs more intensive support
A the small number of students whochildren have behaviour, social or learning needs that are highly challenging behaviour with complex needs that affect their ability to learn, and challenging (andcould harm relationships with families, whānau and the community. The contributing factors may have associatedinclude intellectual difficulty) and requiredifficulties. The Intensive Wraparound Service (IWS) provides support at school, at homefor the student and people in school, home, and the community may benefit from additional support through the Intensive Wraparound Service.community. This may include enrolment in a residential special school. Contact your Special Education District Office about a referral.
Read about the Intensive Wraparound Service (IWS)