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About the Bradstow School Behaviour Support Database

Customers

There are about 100 users of the database in the UK, Ireland and America including...

Accredo Lutterworth
Acorn Care Cheadle
Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind
Bradstow School Broadstairs
Carmona Services Dun Laoghaire
Dene Hall Easington Colliery
Foxwood School Hythe;
Hay Lane School London
Hill House School Lymington
Hillside School Preston
Humberston Park School N E Lincs
Kent LEA
MacIntyre
Marchant-Holliday School Templecombe
Mary Elliot School Walsall
Mayfield School Chorley
Michael Tippett School London
Moorcroft School Uxbridge
Norwood
Reynalds Cross School Solihull
St Christophers School Bristol
Stone Bay School Broadstairs
Thornhill Park School Sunderland
TLC Care Homes Halstead
Underley Schools Kirkby Lonsdale
Warwickshire Disabilities Team
Wessex Autistic Society
Wolverhampton Social Services
Woodfield School Hemel Hempstead...

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For the recording, analysis and monitoring of behavioural incidents in schools and adult services

The Behaviour Support Database allows for detailed incident recording including activity, location, antecedents, behaviour, consequences, staff and others present, intervention strategies and medical and notification information.

This unique database has been sponsored by Bradstow School. Bradstow School in Broadstairs is a residential special school who have been using the database since the beginning of 2004. It has significantly enhanced their capability to record then monitor and analyse incidents across a whole range of criteria.

Bradstow School offer support to other users of the database.

In their own words... "This database has given us an invaluable tool to analyse causes and patterns of incidents. Having this information so readily available has helped us put individualised person-centred strategies in place which have a positive impact on the lives of students in our care. Parents are delighted to see graphs that show the improvements in the behaviour of their children, and we are all better informed about the needs of each individual."

Analysis

A key feature of the database is the ability to view the incident data in many different ways. Two mechanisms exist for doing this. One is solely to use the database itself – a flexible query / filter module has been integrated into the database to enable the information to be interrogated easily.

It is also possible by means of a single mouse-click to create a worksheet of selected incident data suitable for further analysis in Microsoft Excel. This enables the production of charts, creation of pivot tables, utilisation of the database functions of Excel, and more sophisticated statistical investigation. This is a particularly powerful means of analysing trends or common factors, and thus aiding the preparation of action plans.

Technical Information

The Behaviour Support Database is written using Microsoft Access. It requires Access version 2000 or later to be installed on each computer where the database is to be used. It has been tested on all versions up to Access 2007. It is recommended that Microsoft Excel (version 97 or above) also be installed in order to utilise the full data analysis capability. The customisable user guide requires Microsoft Word (version 97 or above). All trade marks are acknowledged.

The database is suitable for installation on a network, and is designed for multi-user access.