Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is working with the University of Leeds on the £40,000 pilot, which will see two workers in each school given training during the current academic year.
The idea of the project is to give support staff social work skills. Richard Newton, extended school remodelling adviser for Wakefield council, said: "We've put social workers in schools before, but what is different about this is that we are taking existing school staff and training them in social work."
If the work is successful it could lead to social work training for school support staff across Wakefield. Newton said the ideal would be to have one member of staff with social work training in each school, although for the pilot two members of staff in each school are being trained.
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