Hello Nick,

I don't know how useful these will be, but I hope that they will be of some help and will encourage other RG members to send their responses!

See the below, particularly p.4 - Teachers as mental/emotional health promoters - re the pastoral care section of your question:

Kidger, J., Gunnell, D., Biddle, L., Campbell, R., & Donovan, J. (2009). Part and parcel of teaching? Secondary school staff’s views on supporting student emotional health and well‐being. British Educational Research Journal, 36(6), 919-935.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233074255_Part_and_parcel_of_teaching_Secondary_school_staff's_views_on_supporting_student_emotional_health_and_well-being

Best, R. (2007). The whole child matters: the challenge of Every Child Matters for pastoral care. Education 3–13, 35(3), 249-259.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249028525_The_whole_child_matters_The_challenge_of_Every_Child_Matters_for_pastoral_care

Reid, K. (2005). The implications of Every Child Matters and the Children Act for schools. Pastoral Care in Education, 23(1), 12-18.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249396694_The_Implications_of_Every_Child_Matters_for_Schools

I haven't seen the full text to these either:

Lodge, C. (2006). Beyond the head of year. Pastoral Care in Education, 24(1), 4-9.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0122.2005.00355.x/full

Hamblin, D. (1986). The failure of pastoral care?. School Organization, 6(1), 141-148 (this also is quite old now).

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0260136860060118?journalCode=cslm19

. . and I don't think that they are on ResearchGate.

Have you also seen these?

This is a site named 'Good Year Heads':

https://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/good-year-heads/

. . and this is a forum 'Role of Head of Year':

https://community.tes.com/threads/role-of-head-of-year.64636/

This is from The Guardian - '10 top tips for teachers heading into school senior leadership teams':

https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/aug/26/top-tips-teachers-school-senior-leadership-team

Very best wishes,

Mary

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