National Healthy Schools Outcomes for Emotional Health and Wellbeing 

Collecting Data
• It is important to start thinking about the outcomes at the beginning of your healthy schools progress, particularly with regards to the quantitative outcome which measures a percentage increase or decrease. In this case a baseline measure is needed before any programme starts and the same measure taken once the programme has finished giving evidence of either an increase or decrease as required.
• Most schools collect a huge amount of data already. In the case of Emotional health and Well-being data such as attendance, exclusions and late arrivals can all be measured during registration and monitored each tem. Incidents of bullying can be monitored via your schools behaviour management system and much of the reported qualitative outcomes can be measured by pupil/ parent/ staff questionnaire or by interviewing a focus group.

How do the outcomes relate to validation?
• Your outcomes will be the areas that are moderated should your school be one of the 10% that get randomly moderated following self validation. The moderators will choose just one outcome (from any theme), plus the school chooses one outcome (from any theme) and only these two outcomes will be moderated. Therefore it is important to measure outcomes that demonstrate the schools strengths and that the school has readily available evidence.