Children and young people communicate through their behaviour. They can struggle to regulate and articulate their feelings and wishes. Families can often have the best interest of their child at heart, but often, like their children, struggle to communicate this in what we see as an appropriate way. Schools are pressured to gain high grades and keep attendance percentages close to 100% as possible. Families and children’s priorities are often survival, day to day and fitting into the social norms of their environment. Working with the high priority pupils is often time consuming and restrictive. Services are stretched and thresholds high. My aim is to bridge that gap between all involved with the child/young person.