104 Developing Mental Toughness F i g u r e 11.3 Mental Toughness Scores (MTQ48) correlated with quantitative ability Gender Male Female Quantitative Ability 102.50 Mean Scores 100.00 97.50 95.00 Low Medium Mental Toughness High Deep Support programme The second deployment of mental toughness came in 2007 as part of a wider programme known as `Deep Support'. On this occasion a different secondary school in the borough, All Saints Catholic High School, was the focus. The purpose of the Deep Support Pilot Project (DSPP) is to use innovative practice as a means of bringing about further change in learning and teach ing to improve the achievements of young people in secondary school. All Saints Catholic High School has already implemented creative practice with regard to the implementation of emotional intelligence for members of staff and students, particularly the use of the Learning Mentor Team to support learning and the sharing of good practice between primary feeder schools and All Saints School. The programme was set up as a project within the wider `Change for Children' programme initiated by Knowsley to affect changes in working practices as part of the approach when implementing the then government's `Every Child Matters' agenda. The wider aims of the Deep Support pro gramme were to: increase the students' level of self worth; develop their levels of resilience so that they have greater influence over their futures within a changing world;