Just over a year ago, the prime minister, in a speech at the Charity Commission’s annual meeting, described mental health as “one of the greatest social challenges of our time”.
In this speech, schools and colleges were seen as a crucial part of a wider approach to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing as well as preventing mental illness in children and young people.
Many of your schools I’m sure are working extremely hard to help prevention of problems and make promotion of wellbeing a priority.
Research commissioned by the Department for Education to understand what schools, colleges and other educational institutions in England currently do to promote positive mental health and wellbeing among pupils, identified that an overwhelming 92 per cent reported having an “ethos or environment that promoted mutual care and concern” (DfE, August 2017).
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