Emotionally Friendly Settings

Emotionally Friendly Settings (EFS) has its own website.

Visit the EFS website

The Emotionally Friendly Settings programme is a flexible, whole-setting approach to improving children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. It is supported by Salford Educational Psychology Service.

The Emotionally Friendly Settings manuals cover the process of becoming an Emotionally Friendly Setting. There are currently four different versions of the manuals (Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Post-16) all of which are available online via the EFS website. Although they differ slightly in content, they broadly focus on four key areas: 

1. Staff Wellbeing and Setting Ethos
2. Classroom Practice
3. Assessing Children and Young People's Needs
4. Supporting Individual Children and Young People

The Emotionally Friendly Settings accreditation has been designed to complement the Emotionally Friendly Settings programme. It aims to support settings in continual improvement and helps them evidence how they are supporting their children and young people's emotional health and well-being needs. Used alongside the auditing tool from the EFS programme, the accreditation provides a framework for a setting's development in emotional health and well-being.

Find out more about the programme or the accreditation