Webinar: Are Students Missing School, or Missing Support?

Roisin McEvoy, Head of Schools Training and National Programmes at Anna Freud (Chair)

Roisin leads the team of education and clinical experts who deliver professional learning and national programmes around whole-school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. She is a former teacher and school leader in London secondary schools.

Em Orchard, Young Participation Programme Assistant at Anna Freud

Emily has been a Young Participation Programme Assistant at Anna Freud for the last 4 years and is currently training to be a midwife. At school, Emily faced her own challenges when it came to attendance and is keen to share her lived experience to support other young people. Over her time at Anna Freud, she has supported a range of projects including Your Choice and Children in Need and is currently working on Vanguard, EOPS and DCYPHR.

Hannah Tippler, Child and Family Specialist and Modality Lead at Anna Freud

Hannah qualified as a teacher in 1998 and has worked in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings with children, young people, families, and adults. This also includes teaching in both primary and secondary schools, as a support worker in a therapeutic children’s camp, and as a volunteer with adults in a residential rehab.

Hannah is a CBT therapist having completed the UCL Diploma in CBT for Children and Young People in 2019. She became Deputy SENCo and Senior Mental Health Lead in a secondary school where she set up a CBT service and was the link for the school MHST, taking responsibility for referrals to their service.

Hannah is currently Deputy Team Manager and Child and Family Specialist for Brent Wellbeing and Emotional Support Team, working with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. Her main focus is on children with complex backgrounds. As part of this role, she worked as part of a multi-agency team to develop the Borough’s response to Emotionally Based School Absence including setting up a service within the WEST team to respond to the growing need in this area and delivering training to schools and local authority partners. Hannah is also Deputy Programme Director for EMHP PG Dip EMHP at UCL/AF and teaches on school attendance issues to trainee SWPs across the country.

Nic Petri, School Engagement Trainer at Anna Freud

With over 25 years in teaching and school leadership across mainstream and special education, Nic has a passion to support schools and students around issues of non-attendance. She has developed practical, wellbeing led strategies to restore connection to education for learners and strengthen school–family relationships.

We offer a limited number of free places to education professionals working at state-funded schools in Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Islington, Barking and Dagenham, Camden, Brent, Southwark, Greenwich and Lambeth.

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