How One Partnership Reaches Every School, Professional, and Family
EBSA Horizons is a two-year partnership that builds lasting capacity across your entire system. Three coordinated programmes train every school, equip every relevant professional, and support every family.
Whether you are a Local Authority strengthening your graduated response, a trust building consistency across academies, or a health system reducing demand on specialist services, the partnership adapts to your context. You set the direction. We handle the delivery.
Two-Year Partnership
Monthly steering group meetings with our psychology team, strategic alignment with your priorities, and integration with your existing initiatives.
Three Programmes
Coordinated training for school staff, multi-agency professionals, and families. Everyone around the child receives aligned, role-appropriate content.
Delivery Without the Burden
Registration, progress tracking, re-engagement, and reporting are all managed for you. Your team stays focused on strategic priorities.
Oversight and Reporting
Real-time visibility across your schools and services, with reporting ready for Board papers, elected member briefings, or ICB reviews.
Three Programmes. One Shared Framework.
Outcomes improve when every adult around a child shares the same understanding. The three programmes build a consistent approach across schools, strengthen the graduated response, improve the quality of referrals reaching specialist services, and support families before difficulties escalate.
For all school staff
Three progressive tiers reach every adult in the school, from receptionists and catering staff to headteachers and governors. Each person completes the tier relevant to their role. Together, the three levels build a whole-school graduated response to EBSA that aligns with the DfE statutory attendance guidance and strengthens the quality of support before cases are referred to external services.
Level 1
45-60 min · All staffUniversal understanding of EBSA, early recognition, and compassionate response
Level 2
3-4 hours · Key personnelAssessment frameworks, graduated response planning, and multi-agency coordination
Level 3
6-9 hours · Designated leadsWhole-setting audit, policy development, intervention planning, and leading EBSA practice
Schools receive registration links, staff self-enrol, and progress is tracked and reported back to you automatically.
The same understanding. Everywhere at once.
When every adult around a child shares the same framework, thousands of small moments become opportunities for support. That is the difference between training individuals and changing a culture.
Measurable Progress at Every School
As schools progress through the programme, they achieve formal status milestones that you can track across your authority or trust. Each status comes with accreditation that schools value for inspection evidence and professional recognition.
EBSA Aware
75% of staff complete Level 1 training, demonstrating whole-school understanding of EBSA. At this point, the majority of adults in the school share the same language and can recognise the same early indicators.
EBSA Friendly
EBSA Aware status plus the School Lead completes Level 3 specialist training. The school now has both universal awareness and internal specialist expertise to lead its own EBSA response.
EBSA Champion
EBSA Friendly status plus completion of a whole-school EBSA audit and action plan. Practice is fully embedded, sustainable, and evidenced through systematic self-evaluation.
Inspection evidence at every stage. Each status comes with a formal accreditation certificate, digital badge, and an inspection evidence letter prepared by our psychology team that maps the training directly to Ofsted and Estyn framework requirements.
We Handle the Delivery. You Keep the Oversight.
Reaching thousands of people across a system usually means months of coordination. The delivery model behind EBSA Horizons removes that burden. You focus on strategic oversight. We manage everything else.
How Delivery Works
From Setup to Sustained Engagement
Each school goes through a simple setup process, then the entire training journey is managed on your behalf. Schools receive introductory communications, designate a lead, and share their staff list. From that point, we handle everything: personalised registration, progress tracking, and follow-up.
Sustained momentum
Staff receive encouragement at key milestones, and schools receive recognition as they progress toward EBSA Aware, Friendly, and Champion status. Staff who pause receive follow-up on your behalf, removing the need for anyone to chase individuals.
Partnership-wide milestones
Shared celebrations when 500+, 1,000+, and 2,000+ staff are trained across the partnership, creating a sense of collective progress that strengthens engagement.
Staff turnover protection
New staff joining schools mid-year are automatically added to the training pathway, so schools do not lose ground over time.
Oversight and Reporting
Oversight at Every Level
Headteachers / School Leads
School-level progress, individual staff completion, and inspection-readiness evidence for Ofsted or Estyn conversations
Heads of Services
Team progress across their professional service, training completion, and engagement across the team
Trust and Authority Strategic Leads
Overview across every setting: aggregated school status data, cross-school comparison, and Board-ready reporting for strategic oversight
We are happy to walk you through the reporting in detail during a discussion. Screenshots and a live demonstration are available.
Your Partnership Timeline
From initial setup to sustained, embedded practice. The timeline adapts to your existing schedules and priorities.
Strategic Alignment
We work together to align the partnership with your existing strategy, map the stakeholder landscape, and tailor the delivery to your context. This includes identifying how EBSA Horizons integrates with your current initiatives and statutory requirements, including the DfE attendance guidance. Schools receive introductory communications and the first cohorts begin training.
What your team does: Attend monthly steering group meetings, provide stakeholder contact information, and promote awareness across your schools and services.
Reaching Every Setting
Training rolls out across all schools, professional services, and families. Registration, progress tracking, and re-engagement are managed for you. Monthly steering group meetings review progress, share emerging insights, and adjust the approach as needed. This is also where the partnership connects with your existing initiatives, whether that is a trust-wide inclusion strategy, Supporting Families programme, MHST deployment, or local attendance improvement plans.
What your team does: Review progress at steering group meetings, encourage engagement across schools and services, and connect EBSA Horizons with existing initiatives.
Embedding and Sustainability
As the majority of schools and services complete their training, the focus shifts to embedding practice, building internal leadership capacity, and conducting impact evaluation. Schools achieving EBSA Friendly and Champion status develop their own specialist expertise that sustains beyond the partnership. Impact data is compiled for strategic reporting and future planning.
What your team does: Use impact data for strategic reporting, plan for sustainability beyond the partnership, and identify opportunities to deepen implementation.
What We Need From You
The partnership is designed to minimise demand on your team. This is what a typical month looks like for your strategic lead.
2 hours
Monthly steering group
A strategic meeting with our psychology team and your key stakeholders to review progress, discuss emerging insights, and align priorities. This is the heartbeat of the partnership.
30 minutes
Stakeholder communication
Sharing pre-written communications with schools and services. We draft everything; you provide the strategic endorsement that makes rollout effective.
As needed
Progress review
Live data is always available. Most partners review it monthly at steering group, but there is no minimum requirement. We flag anything that needs attention.
Zero
Administration
Registration, progress tracking, re-engagement, and reporting are all managed for you. No spreadsheets, no chasing, no coordination burden.
Psychology-Led Throughout
Every element of the programme is designed and delivered by practising Educational and Child Psychologists. Your steering group meetings are led by the same psychology team that developed the content. The people who built it are the people you work with throughout.
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Explore How This Would Work in Your Context
Book a 30-minute conversation with our psychology team. We will walk through how the partnership would fit alongside your existing strategy, what the timeline looks like, and what outcomes other Local Authorities, trusts, and health partners are seeing. No obligation, just a genuine professional conversation.