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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

The ‘Heads Up: Rethinking mental health services for vulnerable young people’ report published by the Commission for Young Lives is the fourth thematic report on mental health.

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

Today marks youth mental health day in the UK and, with older teenagers and young adults being deemed the groups whose mental health was affected most by the pandemic, this focus on mental health is a timely one.

NHS England have announced that the Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) Team and NHS Transformation Directorate, are launching an NHS IMPACT initiative with a set of crowdsourcing challenges on the Solving Together platform.

World Mental Health Day is on Sunday 10th October and the theme for this year is ‘mental health in an unequal world’. 

The Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 2023 report reveals significant rises in the number of probable mental health conditions and a significant increase in those diagnosed with eating disorders.