The resource, produced by the NCB’s Partnership for Well Being and Mental Health in Schools, aims to help schools develop existing practice as well as identify new programmes, set priorities and evaluate their ways of working.
It comes in the form of a four-stage framework, with each step including developmental questions and activities aimed at bringing the whole school together to tackle and prevent mental health challenges. The stages are:
It comes after a joint NCB-Association of School and College Leaders survey revealed that 55 per cent of school leaders had seen “a large increase in anxiety or stress” among students; 79 per cent reported an increase in incidents of self-harm or suicidal thoughts among students.
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