Children are under increasing pressure. Investing in their mental wellbeing could could help them now and in the future
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The Guardian
20 May 2019
Charity welcomes inclusive guidelines that will give LGBT young people the opportunity to explore the issue of consent
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TES
20 May 2019
New networks will mean thousands more young people can access high-quality careers education
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Department for Education
20 May 2019
Schools must stop blocking employers and colleges from speaking to their students about alternative non-academic options to A-levels and university, the education secretary has said.
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Independent
21 May 2019
Urgent action needed to inform teachers about mental health and emotional wellbeing at each stage of a child’s life, says Pam Steel
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TES
03 Jun 2019
Anti-Bullying Week happens in schools across England each November. This year's Anti-Bullying Week has the theme Change Starts With Us and is happening from Monday 11th November - Friday 15th November 2019.
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Anti-Bullying Alliance
04 Jun 2019
We’re great at spotting trends in safeguarding, but can drop the ball on pastoral issues, says Ceri Stokes - maybe it’s time to make the two more similar
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TES
06 Jun 2019
Researchers found that views on the transgender page of the Childline website have almost doubled in a year.
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The Telegraph
06 Jun 2019
The Home Office has been working with the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Association and teachers to create new and improved school curriculum materials on knife crime ahead of the summer holidays.
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The Educator UK
06 Jun 2019
Sixteen-year-olds in England should not be restricted to a choice of A-levels or T-levels, business leaders say.
The new Technical levels, or T-levels as they will be known, will be introduced from 2020.
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BBC
13 Jun 2019
A new support and wellbeing space to help teachers through the stress and pressures of the school year.
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BBC
20 Jun 2019
'Scared' parents have released this appalling footage of a 12-year-old schoolboy being savagely beaten in the street by bullies.
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Kent Live
24 Jun 2019
Amanda Spielman says that the rise of “single issue groups” including vegan campaigners and anti-LGBT education protesters has meant that a “simplistic, polarising” narrative has formed, “in which the world’s problems have a single, neat solution; where scapegoats abound and critics are seen as the enemy - to be discredited, discounted or disowned.”
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The Telegraph
24 Jun 2019
New research shows parents have a “worrying lack of knowledge and awareness” about the new relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum set to be made compulsory in England’s schools from September 2020.
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TES
28 Jun 2019
Surveys carried out by mental charity Mind also found that half of teachers did not feel they had enough information to support pupils with poor mental health, and just one quarter were confident they could help pupils access help outside of school.
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Schools Week
04 Jul 2019
Pupils can nominate teachers and school staff in England that go above and beyond the call of duty to prevent and respond to bullying and to raise awareness of bullying in school.
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Anti-Bullying Alliance
04 Jul 2019
Bullying remains the number one concern of young people with the majority of bullying starting in school, says research
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TES
09 Jul 2019
A REPORT EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BANTER AND BULLYING IN THE U.K
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The Cybersmile Foundation
13 Jan 2020
The research, led by Ipsos Mori, found that an estimated 41,000 children under 16 follow gambling-related accounts, while children replied to or retweeted those accounts 13,000 times.
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The Guardian
11 Jul 2019
Children’s charity the NSPCC and the National Education Union (NEU) are now calling on the Government to urgently step up its support and training for schools and teachers to help them deliver the vital lessons.
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The Guide Liverpool
12 Jul 2019