Student Support Services Review

Education leaders have a responsibility to respond when students experience difficulty with their schooling, so it is imperative that they identify and act on their concerns to enable early and effective intervention for students. Risks for students may involve individual, social, emotional or physical factors, or may be related to family or community factors. Consequently, children who are often made vulnerable in such contexts are seen as “at risk” through either poverty or disability. In short, there is a group of children ‘left behind’ in schools whose educational futures are bleak.

In an effort to address some of these inequalities impacting education quality in the OECS, Member States have embarked on the provision of a variety of student support services for

vulnerable and at-risk students. This report commissioned by the OECS Commission examines the nature, features, issues and challenges surrounding the provision of Student Support Programmes across the OECS sub-region, and makes recommendations for strengthening the provision of SSS in member states.