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Coronavirus: Mental health support developed for primary school children

A toolkit aimed at addressing the mental health and well-being of children as they return to school in September has been launched.
The NCB toolkit developed in partnership with the DfE
The NCB toolkit developed in partnership with the DfE

Developed in consultation with the Department for Education (DfE), Mental health and wellbeing in primary schools – preparing for recovery has been launched by the National Children's Bureau's Schools Well-Being Partnership.

The toolkit builds upon the eight principles set out in Public Health England’s guidance, Promoting children and young people’s emotional health and well-being: a whole school and college approach, and shows how schools can promote and support mental well-being through all aspects of school life.

It comes as the DfE launched an £8m grant yesterday to support pupil's mental health in schools and colleges. The Well-being for Education Return programme aims to help schools respond to the 'additional pressures pupils may be feeling, as well as to any emotional response they or their teachers may still be experiencing from bereavement, stress, trauma or anxiety of the past months.'

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