Lincolnshire Behaviour Outreach Support Service (BOSS)

Lincolnshire Behaviour Outreach Support Service (BOSS) has been commissioned by Lincolnshire County Council on behalf of the community of schools in Lincolnshire. Our contract is to provide support to schools as part of the Lincolnshire Ladder of Behavioural Intervention

Our aim

Our aim is to support schools in a variety of ways to enable them to more effectively support their pupils that display behaviour that challenges, with a view to delivering an inclusive approach to learning. Our work focuses on maintaining children and young people’s positive engagement with school.

Our service is founded on trauma informed and relational approaches and we work to put ‘the voice of the child’ at the heart of what we do to ensure their perspective is included in the agreements made to support of them.

70% of young people at risk of exclusion referred to us remained in education.

Our work

The Lincolnshire BOSS team offers mainstream schools/academies across Lincolnshire a wide range of support to meet their ongoing needs, for example:

• support to develop whole-school approaches to behaviour management, including behaviour policy review, training and development for school staff,.
• advice and support for school staff dealing with individual children presenting with behaviour that challenges (this will include observations, assessment, planning, delivery of intervention and review)
• interventions to support groups of pupils
• intensive interventions to support individual pupils with challenging behaviour
• supporting pupils’ reintegration from Springwell Alternative Academy
• support and guidance to develop an understanding of Relational Practice in School
• support and training to achieve the Bronze, Silver and Gold Schools Relationship Award

Useful downloads

Download our Short BOSS Flyer highlighting the work of the BOSS service. For more detailed information, download our four-page BOSS Leaflet.

Other useful downloads:

• BOSS Transition Booklet Infant – Junior
• BOSS Transition Circle Guide Infant – Junior
• BOSS Transition Key Adult Guide – Infant – Junior
• BOSS Transition Booklet Post 16
• BOSS Transition Key Adult Guide Post 16
• BOSS Transition Booklet Primary – Secondary
• BOSS Transition Circle Guide Primary – Secondary
• BOSS Transition Key Adult Guide Primary – Secondary
• Toolkit for Regulation – Primary
• Toolkit for Regulation – Secondary Schools
• Regulation and De-escalation Training Flyer
• PDA Training Flyer
• Attachment Training Flyer
• Social Stories Training Flyer 
• Regulation cards for home

The BOSS service have also produced a number of useful short training and information videos, available via the Family Action YouTube channel.

I am astounded in the difference you have made to my daughter. I haven’t seen her this happy in a long time! Thank you for listening – without your help I’m sure that things would have got worse