Te Tupu Managed Moves has only been operating since August 2019, but we have already made positive differences for the students, whānau, schools and community we support.
As part of the Te Tupu Managed Moves prototype, the Ministry of Education commissions an evaluation each year to look at our effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
“Student-centred learning and wellbeing is the cornerstone of Te Tupu. Programme interventions were supported by an extensive bespoke and wraparound approach to student support, where stakeholders drawn from social and educational agencies worked collaboratively towards the same goals and positive outcomes for the student.
At the early stages of development, this evolving model for robust care and learning programmes was focused on positive and tailored interventions for the student. Learning at Te Tupu was not a substitute for the literacy and numeracy focus of school learning, rather, there was a stronger focus on belonging and identity, which was then complemented by literacy and numeracy.”
– Springboard Trust
Springboard Trust
This evaluation report is available upon request
“Te Tupu has effectively provided a wraparound service for tamariki, their whānau and
community support services.
Te Tupu has demonstrated what is required to build effective and culturally responsive
relationships with tamariki and their whānau. There has been a sharing of power,
acknowledging that we all have something to learn. Te Tupu allows for the cycle of
disengagement with education to be disrupted.
Improved outcomes for
tamariki
This evaluation highlighted the improved outcomes for tamariki, their whānau and
schools through their engagement with Te Tupu.
Ensuring responses were timely have had positive effects for both tamariki and whānau
as it removes them, quickly, from situations that are not going well and immediately
de-escalates tensions.
Te Tupu has supported these tamariki and their whānau to adapt or to find their place
within the education system”.
–Poutama Pounamu
January 2020 – 2022
Poutama Pounamu – The University of Waikato
This evaluation report is available on request
Key themes
- Students felt physically and psychologically safe and secure at Te Tupu
- Students liked the learning at Te Tupu
- Students learned to accept different behaviours at Te Tupu
- Parents/whānau demonstrated an appreciation of Te Tupu
- Schools had positive responses to student transitions from Te Tupu
- School presence was consistent while the student is at Te Tupu
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