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This student recalls how bullying – much of it involving social media – drove her away from school

Throughout history, LGBT people and issues have presented with extreme negatively, or completely ignored all together. As children in schools, we were lied to by omission: reading novels, plays, poetry written by LGBT people without even realising. It was just assumed that everybody was heterosexual.

Up to 370 schools to join one of the largest trials in the world to boost the evidence about what works to support mental health and wellbeing

56% of parents say they are most worried about bullying at school, more than issues like internet safety and gaming addiction

Should parents or teachers take responsibility?

Education Secretary welcomes innovative approaches being trialled to reduce the number of care leavers ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’

Sex education groups back better 'porn literacy' – and call for teachers to receive training to deliver lessons

The public is sceptical of government plans that would see teachers tasked with instilling resilience through new mental health lessons being added to the national curriculum in 2020, an extensive survey conducted by Mental Health Today has established.

More school leavers should get jobs and work their way up instead of leaving university with £50,000 debts, Education Secretary warns

Teachers can make a big difference simply listening to their students' worries, says this educational psychologist

Education Secretary hails coming of age apprenticeship programme with top firms having woken up to the benefits apprentices are bringing to their workplaces

Scores of young Brits feel they are being pushed down the route of going to university, according to research, Mirror is reporting.

A government scheme to improve access to mental health services for pupils may not reach all schools for a decade, it has been admitted.

A government department is offering dedicated teaching resources for the core subjects for the first time in a bid to promote healthier eating habits among schoolchildren.

Education Secretary stresses importance of basic life-saving skills and first aid – under plans for health education to become compulsory in all schools.

As GPs warn young people could suffer harm because of treatment delays, one 16-year-old talks about her experience

Children are consuming the equivalent of eight excess sugar cubes a day, or 2,800 a year, says PHE, which has launched a new healthy eating campaign under its Change4Life scheme. National guidance recommends no more than five or six sugar cubes (20g-24g) a day for children aged four to 10.

James Innes warns of the impact your social footprint has on getting that dream job in 2019 It’s a fact of our time that most of us are social media addicts! Young people hardly put their phones down and it seems we now do everything on our smart phones.

The government has announced 25 trailblazer sites to launch new mental health services for children and young people.

This poster-style document sets out 10 steps to providing high quality Relationships and Sex Education as an identifiable part of PSHE education.