Mentally Healthy Schools Website Launch
NEW SCHOOLS RESOURCE – YoungMinds are proud to have been involved with the Heads Together Mentally Healthy Schools site, which became available nationwide today. Click here to see more about the launch
Talking about suicide can be scary but we need to do it.
Suicidal feelings do not have to end in suicide. Many young people feel really isolated and unable to discuss their thoughts with others. Let #NationalConversationWeek be a reminder of how important it is to talk. Click here to download some…
Teach yoga and meditation to ‘unplug children’, says education minister
Children should be taught Buddhist meditation techniques and yoga in schools to help them "unplug from their online world", a minister has said. Edward Timpson, an education minister, said that schools across the country should start teaching "mindfulness" as a…
LGA calls for compulsory independent mental health counselling roll-out in all secondary schools
The Government has pledged a total of £1.7 billion to promoting, protecting and improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The Local Government Association, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, is calling for 5 per cent of…
‘Lucy: Breaking The Silence’ documentary completes post production.
Fact Not Fiction Films has confirmed that they have completed post production on a new documentary ‘Lucy: Breaking the Silence’. The film had a private media screening with guests from the Lucy Rayner Foundation at the Horsham Capitol theatre on…
Four-in-10 heads struggle to know which mental health support to provide pupils
More than four-in-10 school leaders struggle to know what type of mental health support is needed for their pupils, a survey has found. The poll also revealed that more than a third of counsellors and psychotherapists report difficulty in providing their…
Young Minds have responded to the government’s Green Paper on children & young people’s mental health.
Dear Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, I am writing to you on behalf of YoungMinds to respond to the consultation on Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper. YoungMinds is the…
Discounting exercise as a mental health aid is short sighted
A study of 122 adults with moderate depression – who hadn’t responded successfully to antidepressants – were assigned either 10 weeks of hatha yoga or health education classes, twice a week. Researchers found that yoga did indeed have an impact…