Pupil welfare services include attending to the child's or young person's basic learning prerequisites and physical, psychological, and social well-being. Pupil welfare services consist of both community and individual support.
With respect to pupil welfare, the curriculum is to be prepared in collaboration with those charged with tasks that are part of the implementation of the local authority's social and health services. For the curriculum, a plan is to be drafted that depicts the objectives and key principles of pupil welfare services. Pupil welfare is the concern of all persons working in the school community, as well as those authorities responsible for pupil welfare services. It is implemented in close cooperation with the home. In planning the necessary pupil welfare support functions for an individual pupil, the child or young person and the parent or other guardian are to be consulted. Confidentiality, respect for the child or young person and parents or other guardians, and statutes on secrecy and the parties' access to information guide pupil welfare work. The work can be coordinated and developed by a multidisciplinary pupil welfare team.
By definition, welfare services refer to the promotion and maintenance of good learning, good mental and physical health as well as social well-being of the pupils and students, and conditions conducive to these. Well-being, security and interaction of the school community are key concerns and prevention and taking care of different problems (observing absences; bullying, violence and harassment; mental health issues; abuse of intoxicating substances; accidents, misfortunes and deaths) cardinal.