Janette Steel is Head Teacher at Chelsea Children's Hospital School, which includes the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, The Royal Brompton Hospital , St. Mary's Hospital, Collingham Gardens Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, The Cheyne Centre for children with Cerebral Palsy and children and young people in RBKC who have a medical or mental health condition that prevents them going to school.
Janette has lectured in the areas of Arts for Health, Bereavement, and the Education of Children with Medical and Mental Health Problems, . She has a MA in Psychology and Special Needs from the Institute of Education and studied Drama Therapy in the Psychology Masters Programme at Antioch University in San Francisco.
Janette's career working with children started as a director at the National Youth Theatre, she then went on to have a theatre company called 'Amorous Piranha' (a loving bite at society). She worked in San Francisco as a Drama Therapist and leader of a creative arts programme, in a wide range of special settings including in-patient psychiatric units and hospitals.
Publications include:
• Identification of Girls in Emotional Behaviour Difficulties
• Inpatient Units for Children with mental health problems
• Ofsted Euphoria
• Courage (Children with Cystic Fibrosis)
• A Chapter called "Educating the Emotions" in the Arts and Healthcare Learning from Experience
• Returning children with a mental health diagnosis to school
• Cystic Fibrosis: meeting the long term educational needs