Mental Health and Pastoral Leadership

Two essential templates to help you create structured, effective support plans for pupils with challenging behaviour.

When a pupil's behaviour needs additional help to manage, you need clear frameworks to assess risk and plan targeted support. This bundle provides you with two robust templates that streamline the process whilst ensuring you capture all the essential information. They're also in line with the April 2026 DfE guidance on the Restrictive interventions, including the use of reasonable force, in schools.

What's included:

• Pupil Behaviour Plan Template - Comprehensive planning document to create individualised support strategies, from identifying triggers to setting measurable targets
• Behaviour Risk Assessment Form - Structured framework to assess potential risks, likelihood and impact, plus space for reduction strategies and monitoring
• Risk Assessment Log - Simple tracking sheet to monitor multiple pupils' risk levels and review dates at a glance

Perfect for:

• SENDCos managing complex behaviour cases
• Behaviour leads developing individual support plans
• Class teachers needing structured approaches for pupils exhibiting challenging behaviours
• Senior leaders ensuring consistent risk assessment processes
• Anyone working with parents, carers and families to support pupils to succeed with behaviour

Both templates include clear guidance, practical examples and prompts, and space for pupil voice, helping you create plans that are thorough and genuinely supportive of pupil wellbeing.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you lead pastoral care and personal development, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for pastoral leads and personal development coordinators, this focused preparation pack translates the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. Whether you oversee PSHE, careers education, enrichment, pastoral support or all of these areas, you'll understand when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what questions they're likely to explore and how to demonstrate the excellent work you're already doing to support pupils' wider development and well-being.

You'll get:

☑️ Pastoral and Personal Development Lead Inspection Role Guidance – clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during focused leadership discussions and learning walks, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted Pastoral and Personal Development Lead Questions – realistic questions you might be asked during inspection conversations, helping you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen

☑️ Further supporting documents – including a leader action checklist to build your inspection knowledge, an inspection readiness tool to evaluate your current practice against toolkit statements, and editable grade descriptor grids highlighting personal development and well-being across the framework

This Ofsted pastoral and personal development resources pack helps to build your confidence to articulate your work clearly and supports you to prepare effectively without creating unnecessary workload. All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and use them as part of your ongoing leadership, not just for inspection preparation.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school supports children to develop their self-regulation, self-care and management, and build relationships with others. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.

Updated for 2026

For senior mental health leads, headteachers and pastoral leaders who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on school well-being and personal development to their governing board.

You'll get:

☑️ School Well-being and Personal Development Report to Governors – a fully editable 11-page Word document covering:

• strategic leadership of well-being including the Senior Mental Health Lead, whole-school strategy and Mental Health Support Team arrangements
• strategic well-being objectives
• pupil well-being data and monitoring
• pupil mental health and emotional well-being provision across universal, targeted and specialist levels, plus safeguarding and crisis protocols
• personal development including PSHE, RSE, British values, SMSC, physical health, online safety, careers education and pupil leadership
• pupil feedback and voice
• well-being of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
• anti-bullying data
• staff well-being data and monitoring
• staff initiatives and support
• workload and working conditions
• staff feedback
• parent, carer and community well-being
• staff training
• well-being challenges and emerging concerns
• policies and procedures
• a structured evaluation and improvement section including governor questions and challenges.

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for senior mental health leads, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual well-being and personal development reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Personal development is one of the most far-reaching areas Ofsted evaluates, covering everything from character and resilience to careers, mental health, British values and enrichment. Knowing what pupils, parents and staff actually think about how well your school delivers in this area is essential for honest self-evaluation, and gathering that feedback well takes more than a quick questionnaire.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about personal development and well-being, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, covering opportunities and participation, life skills, well-being and support, preparation for the future, British values, school culture and careers

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.