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School behaviour management approaches do not take into account children’s mental health

14/10/2022
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Current responses to behaviour in school do not take into account young people and children's mental health problems, according to a survey.

Parents and children surveyed by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition strongly agreed that behaviour is linked to young people’s mental health, but that current responses to behaviour in school do [...]

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Teacher and student

School staff need help tackling child mental health as anxiety among students rises

01/09/2022
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Teachers are seeing increasing levels of anxiety and a rise in mental health problems among their students but lack the training and time to support young people.

Eighty two per cent of teachers are seeing anxious pupils and the worsening of existing mental health problems, compared to just one year ago, according to a survey [...]

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Lucy

WillisPalmer’s School Social Work Service is launched!

20/07/2022
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

By Lucy Hopkins, Head of Practice, WillisPalmer

WillisPalmer is delighted to announce the introduction of our School Social Work Service that commenced with a one term pilot at Hazelmere Junior School in Colchester. 

There is an increasing level of responsibility placed on schools when it comes to safeguarding children, which is challenging and often time consuming [...]

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Teacher and student

£7M funding for school mental health leads

18/05/2022
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Funding of £7 million has been announced by the Department for Education for schools and colleges to train a senior mental health lead.

Senior Mental Health Leads were announced in the government’s green paper on children and young people’s mental health. They will play an important role in helping schools and colleges embed a [...]

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Peer on peer sexual abuse rises

12/05/2022
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Reports of peer-on-peer sexual abuse have risen, the NSPCC has warned.

The child protection charity said calls to their helpline about young people experiencing harmful sexual behaviour had increased significantly following the Everyone’s Invited movement which enabled victims to anonymously post their experiences of sexual abuse on the website gained more than 11,000 posts, [...]

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Schools are not as safe as they should be

03/03/2022
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Schools are not as safe for children as they should be and children’s interests do not always come first when allegations of sexual abuse are made, a report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found.

The Inquiry heard evidence about ineffective safeguarding in schools during the past 20 years and the testimonies [...]

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