How can Primary Schools Better Support their Students’ Mental Health?
An Australian study of the perspectives of primary school teachers has explored how schools can better support the mental health of their students.
Tagged: Young people
Learning from the Pandemic to Improve Children and Young People’s Mental Health Support
Providers of NHS mental health services are now seeing young people with very severe and complex needs, and if they are admitted to hospital, they are staying longer
Scalable Mental Health Interventions for Children and Adolescents
Academics from the Schleider Lab for Scalable Mental Health discuss what factors and challenges policymakers need to take into account and overcome when looking at rolling out interventions
Barcelona’s Experience in Encouraging Youth Employment to Overcome the Effects of Covid on the Labour Market
Raquel Gil, Barcelona’s Commissioner for Employment and Policies Against Precariousness, writes exclusively for IPPO Cities on the city’s initiatives to encourage youth employment, training, and access to skilled jobs.
Lessons from research: what can cities do to help young people move into and sustain decent work?
In advance of our hybrid event in Manchester on Young people’s urban futures: what is insecure work like and what can cities do? on Thursday, 8th September at 4 pm BST, Fiona Christie of...
Two Years On: The Shadow Pandemic of Mental Health Decline
The pandemic is far from over there and there is a need to invest in public health supports to address its effects on mental health.
Education has much to learn: how the relationships between research, policy and practice need to change in light of COVID-19
The Director of the ESRC’s forthcoming Education Research Programme offers a personal view of how education researchers in England have grappled with the many challenges raised by the pandemic. By Gemma Moss
Subject to Change: Setting a New Direction for Education and Learning
Listening to and empowering young people and the public to set a new direction for education and learning A new report from Big Change and the Institute for Public Policy Research by Caireen Goddard,...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Young People’s Mental Health in the UK: Key Insights from Social Media Using Online Ethnography
Rachel Winter and Anna Lavis, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (January 2022) There is increasing evidence of the psychological impact of COVID-19 on various population groups, with concern particularly focused on...
When demand outweighs supply: the problem of safely staffing a school during the pandemic
The sharp rise in COVID-19 cases has left schools in Wales, as elsewhere, struggling to find enough teachers, with many off sick and isolating. Here, a headteacher offers his personal perspectives on how to address this challenging situation
