Guidance and support

The SDQ is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire for 4 to 17 year olds which can be used for the following purposes:

• supporting personal education plan (PEP) meetings for CiC
• supporting education reviews CHwSW and PLAC
• triangulating school, social care and young people from Year 5
• recording conversations
• looking at scores around current strengths and difficulties
• monitoring and establishing baselines to look for changes
• identifying disrupted development and latent vulnerability - for example, children reaching adolescence​ and their teenage years

To find out more about and support for using SDQs use the following downloads and online guidance: 

• Strength and difficulties questionnaires (SDQ) - A guide for schools (Word, 228KB)
• SDQ calculator (XLS, 36KB)​​
• Interactive Resilience Framework