child mental health

£10 million to extend senior mental health lead training to reach more schools and colleges

Thousands of young people will benefit from additional mental health support in their schools, colleges and universities, the government has announced.

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, the Department for Education is today (12 May 2022) announcing a further £7 million for schools and...

Child's play: how to get your kids into gardening By The Greenhouse People

It’s National Gardening Week, and what better way to spend it than by introducing all members of the family to this physically and mentally stimulating hobby.

And with summer half-term just around the corner, and the weather set for a glorious heatwave , gardening could be the perfect activity to keep your...

• Over half (53%) of people living with allergies in the UK regularly avoid social situations due to their allergy.
• Over half, (52%) of people feel they had to play down their allergies due to fear of judgement.
• 2 in 5 (40%) parents of children with allergies reported their child had experienced bullying due to a condition.

New data from the UK’s...

Thousands of families with children are set to benefit from £33 million support to resolve conflict at home and improve children’s life chances.

From: Department for Work and Pensions and Baroness Deborah Stedman-Scott OBE DL

Published 12 April 2022

The Reducing Parental Conflict programme – which funds councils across England to deliver evidence-based relationship support...

Life After Lockdown: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental health

• Almost half (42.8%) of 11–16-year-olds feel that lockdown has made their life worse (NHS)
• In 2020, one in six (16%) children aged 5 to 16 years were identified as having a probable mental disorder (NHS)
• The global estimates of child and adolescent mental illness observed in the
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• The top child friendly activity for benefiting mental health is simply going to the park, with 24,000 average monthly searches
• A scavenger hunt comes in second, with 12,100 monthly searches
• Experts at Eden’s Gate provide tips on how to enjoy nature

Exercising outdoors, growing your own food and plants and being around animals can have lots of...

"Every household in the country should be sent one of these" STEPHEN DIXON, SKY NEWS

70% of adolescent mental health problems are not diagnosed early enough and 1 in 5 kids in the UK suffer from mental health issues in any given year.

With these figures rising year on year, we've teamed up with the highly-esteemed Psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos to develop a new, unique, fun, and...

New analysis into the impact of COVID-19 on young people has found that 317,000 children in the South West are not currently getting their recommended 60 minutes of exercise per day. This amounts to an incredible 45 percent of all children in the region.

The pandemic has had a significant impact on this number, with fewer children meeting their recommended 60 minutes of daily...

Experts have designed new lesson plans to help pupils manage the emotions they may feel when parents separate and ensure their voices are heard during this difficult time.

The new resources, ‘The Rights Idea?’ are designed to help schools sensitively tackle parental separation as part of the PSHE and Citizenship curriculum. They have been produced by Professor. Anne Barlow and Dr Jan...

Exeter pupils need encouragement, reassurance and mental health support, not a focus on “catching-up” or “lost learning”, a survey of children, parents and teachers in the city suggests.

Most parents (86 per cent), teachers (71 per cent) and pupils (88 per cent) who took part in the study were against children re-doing the school year, while 90 per cent of teachers, 80 per cent of...