School Pastoral Care is a phrase that carries lots of different meanings - so just to clarify our working definition:
School Pastoral Care is a systemic approach to education which seeks to value and
develop the young person at every level.
It implies caring for the quality of relationships between the partners in the school community. It involves the engagement of all the school policies, processes and programmes in the development of the appropriate systemic structures, roles and resources to support the development of the emerging adult.
[ Taken from Luke Monahan's recent book "Making School A Better Place".]