Our mental health awareness badge for those leading mental health across their school or college
At Minds Ahead, our work is exclusively focused on improving the mental health of the educational community so we have created a mental health awareness badge to recognise our school and college leaders for helping us being one step closer to our goal of revolutionising mental health in schools and colleges for generations to come. […]
Teacher Wellbeing – More Than Just a Breakfast?
Writing in the Guardian, Adams observed that workload for teachers is leading to a recruitment and retention crisis (Adams, 2018). In recent years staff wellbeing has come sharply into focus and staff mental health is as important as student mental health, with a recent Guardian article citing that ‘the number of teachers seeking mental health […]
Children’s mental health: Key learnings from The Good Childhood Report 2021
Every year The Children’s Society produces a report which pulls together a number of research projects. In particular, the 2021 report relied on the research conducted by the University of Essex (in their Understanding Society project) and the Millennium Cohort Study run by the University College London. It heavily focused on the impact of the […]
We are a training provider on the DfE assured list! Don’t miss the chance to apply for a DfE grant to fund your senior mental health lead training programme
We are proud to announce that, as the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools in partnership with Leeds Beckett University, our Senior Mental Health Lead Training programmes have been approved to be a part of the Department for Education Approved Training Course Provider Framework. All state schools and colleges in England will […]
GCSE results and the correlation with children and young people’s mental health
GCSE results day 2021 is today and according to The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) study, published in the BMJ Open Journal, mental health at ages 11-14 was independently linked to educational success at age 16. The study analysed responses from 1,100 children aged 11-14 from the Understanding Society study and used the National […]
Creating mentally healthy schools after the pandemic: Insights from primary school teachers
A survey conducted by Pearson in April 2021, has highlighted the importance of acknowledging the impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns on students and staff since returning to school. The findings are based on the views of 2,941 primary teachers who participated in a Teacher Tapp survey. Teachers include primary school classroom teachers, middle leaders and […]
Consultation: The views from senior leaders on mental health in schools and colleges
Working with our partners at Leeds Beckett University, as the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools, we consulted with highly engaged senior leads for mental health from 12 schools to inform the House of Commons Select Committee evaluation of the government’s implementation of mental health strategy. Here we share their views: The […]
Use the new Department for Education training grant to fund senior mental health leadership courses
From September 2021 any state school or college will be able to access a grant of about £1,200 to cover the costs of completing senior mental health leadership training. As part of the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental health in Schools, we have been delivering senior mental health leadership development courses since 2017, with […]
Playing a key role in the national roll-out of DfE funded training for mental health leads!
Under our partnership with the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, as the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools, we are the national quality assurance provider for all DfE funded training courses for senior leads in schools and colleges! The Department for Education (DfE) recognises that: “in order to help […]
The MYRIAD study: Are some schools contributing to the rise in mental health issues amongst young people?
The causes of mental health wellbeing and mental health illnesses for our children and young people are well documented, as are the wider structural or socioeconomic contexts that are clear and reliable factors that impact upon mental health. However, specifically focusing on the impact of school-level factors on children and young people is a relatively […]
