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Wellbeing for Education Return aims to support staff working in schools and colleges to respond to the additional pressures that some children and young people may be feeling as a direct result of the pandemic, as well as to any emotional response that they or their teachers may be experiencing from bereavement, stress, trauma or anxiety over the past months. This national project involves funding and resources for local authorities to train and support schools and colleges to respond to the wellbeing, resilience and mental health needs of children and young people as a result of Covid-19, and provide ongoing support and advice until the end of March 2021.
Wellbeing for Education Return has been funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), in partnership with Health Education England (HEE), Public Health England (PHE), and NHS England and Improvement. The material has been developed by MindEd, and initial training for local experts will be delivered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families from 14 September – 2 October 2020. Wellbeing for Education Return has been created with input from mental health and education experts, local authorities, the voluntary sector and school and college leaders. It has been developed specifically to respond to the short- to medium-term wellbeing and mental health impacts of Covid-19 and complement and build upon existing local activity, partnerships and practice to support children and young people’s wellbeing and mental health.
These webinars have been created to support national implementation of Wellbeing for Education Return. The slides will be used during and following the training for local experts delivered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The intention is that local experts adapt this national training content for their local contexts, particularly in terms of signposting to local statutory and voluntary sector services, and use it to provide training for nominated school or further education staff. These education staff will then, supported by the local experts, cascade the resources and materials within their own settings. It will be for local experts and areas to determine the best way to do this, attending to local need and to align with and strengthen existing systems and frameworks.
The training will then be offered to every school and college in England to help support pupil and student wellbeing, resilience and recovery in the context of Covid-19 and to prevent longer-term mental health problems developing, as well as helping to manage and support those who have pre-existing difficulties that may have been exacerbated by coronavirus. It offers straightforward, evidence-based tools and resources for education professionals to use within the scope of their existing roles, as well as guidance on how to identify warning signs and when to signpost or refer to other services. The content and case studies cover core principles which can be adapted for and applied to specific age ranges, education settings and wider contexts.
Wellbeing for Education Return is designed to complement and build upon Government’s longer term plans to improve evidence-based, outcomes-focused, children and young people’s mental health support, which has been adjusted in light of the pandemic and includes joint agency planning as a result of Future in Mind and the NHS Long Term Plan. This includes continuing to invest in specialist NHS services and Mental Health Support Teams, roll out the Schools and Colleges Link Programme to support partnership working across education and health and take forward training for senior mental health leads after reviewing the best way to train those leads, building on this new initiative. - Hierarchy:
- MindEd Education > Wellbeing for Education Return
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- Wellbeing, Education, Teachers, School Return, Covid-19
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- 4 Sep 2020
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- 7 Sep 2020
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Wellbeing for Education Return aims to support staff working in schools and colleges to respond to the additional pressures that some children and young people may be feeling as a direct result of the pandemic, as well as to any emotional response that they or their teachers may be experiencing from bereavement, stress, trauma or anxiety over the past months. This national project involves funding and resources for local authorities to train and support schools and colleges to respond to the wellbeing, resilience and mental health needs of children and young people as a result of Covid-19, and provide ongoing support and advice until the end of March 2021.
Wellbeing for Education Return has been funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), in partnership with Health Education England (HEE), Public Health England (PHE), and NHS England and Improvement. The material has been developed by MindEd, and initial training for local experts will be delivered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families from 14 September – 2 October 2020. Wellbeing for Education Return has been created with input from mental health and education experts, local authorities, the voluntary sector and school and college leaders. It has been developed specifically to respond to the short- to medium-term wellbeing and mental health impacts of Covid-19 and complement and build upon existing local activity, partnerships and practice to support children and young people’s wellbeing and mental health.
These webinars have been created to support national implementation of Wellbeing for Education Return. The slides will be used during and following the training for local experts delivered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The intention is that local experts adapt this national training content for their local contexts, particularly in terms of signposting to local statutory and voluntary sector services, and use it to provide training for nominated school or further education staff. These education staff will then, supported by the local experts, cascade the resources and materials within their own settings. It will be for local experts and areas to determine the best way to do this, attending to local need and to align with and strengthen existing systems and frameworks.
The training will then be offered to every school and college in England to help support pupil and student wellbeing, resilience and recovery in the context of Covid-19 and to prevent longer-term mental health problems developing, as well as helping to manage and support those who have pre-existing difficulties that may have been exacerbated by coronavirus. It offers straightforward, evidence-based tools and resources for education professionals to use within the scope of their existing roles, as well as guidance on how to identify warning signs and when to signpost or refer to other services. The content and case studies cover core principles which can be adapted for and applied to specific age ranges, education settings and wider contexts.
Wellbeing for Education Return is designed to complement and build upon Government’s longer term plans to improve evidence-based, outcomes-focused, children and young people’s mental health support, which has been adjusted in light of the pandemic and includes joint agency planning as a result of Future in Mind and the NHS Long Term Plan. This includes continuing to invest in specialist NHS services and Mental Health Support Teams, roll out the Schools and Colleges Link Programme to support partnership working across education and health and take forward training for senior mental health leads after reviewing the best way to train those leads, building on this new initiative. - Hierarchy:
- MindEd Education > Wellbeing for Education Return
- Keywords:
- Wellbeing, Education, Teachers, School Return, Covid-19
- Created:
- 4 Sep 2020
- Updated:
- 7 Sep 2020