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The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) have a free webinar showcasing five 10-minute lectures from leading academics, practitioners and researchers on key topics in the field of child and adolescent mental health. 

Education Support, the charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of teachers and education staff, have published their annual Teacher Wellbeing Index.

Association of Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) has recently launched an initiative aimed at teachers, to enable schools to access and put to use resources that can genuinely make a difference to the mental wellbeing and educational outcomes...

February 2025

Headteacher urges other schools to take wellbeing action as part of Children’s Mental Health Week

The All Star Advent Calendar is back for 2022 raising money for Papyrus, the suicide prevention charity, and Place2Be, the children’s mental health charity.

As part of the government pledge to offer senior mental health lead training to all state schools and colleges by 2025, the next phase of funding has been released. 

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families have launched a five-episode podcast series to help support schools in talking about racism and mental health.

The results from the My Resilience in Adolescence (MYRIAD) project, funded by Wellcome, have established that mindfulness training does not improve mental health for school children.

The final part of the annual State of Education survey carried out by the National Education Union (NEU) in March 2021 includes the opinions of over 10,000 school staff on the mental health needs of their pupils.

A report by the Children’s Commissioner for England has been published examining the issue of capacity within NHS children’s mental health.

A survey by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition has found that both children and parents are unhappy with how behaviour is being managed in schools in England.

Children’s mental health week starts 7th February 2022 and the theme is ‘Growing Together’. During this week schools across the UK will be exploring the concept of growing emotionally and supporting each other to grow.

As part of the Government’s broader mental health programme across education, funding is being made available for up to 7,800 schools and colleges to access a grant to pay for Senior Mental Health Lead training.

We at nasen believe that – just like access to education – good social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) is an important right of every child and young person in our schools and colleges, as well as every member of the education workforce.

A new report by charity MIND shows secondary schools are struggling to meet the mental health needs of a growing number of pupils.

A new report from the Children’s Commissioner’s team details the current trends around children and young people’s mental health services. The number of young people being referred for treatment has increased to 734,00 from 498,000.

The charity Spark UK was set up in the pandemic by four young people who wanted to dispel the stigma around mental health and provide resources for schools to deliver lessons and ‘spark’ conversations around mental health.

A new initiative to help support children's mental health is being launched, which will see school pupils complete mental health “check-ins”.

Now and Beyond – The mental health festival for schools and colleges is being held again this year on Wednesday 7th February.

Mental Health Awareness week fittingly starts the week of the GCSE examinations this year and the theme is anxiety.