Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) guidance
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: