Mental health commission announces first regional conference
The UK’s first and only schools-led commission into the mental health of pupils will hold its first conference on 8 June.
This will be a full day event on mental health in schools, where school leaders and other professionals will receive practical advice on how to improve pupil wellbeing and mental health in their schools.
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The conference will inform the work of the commission, Healthy MindED, which was set up by SCHOOLS NorthEast to bring together schools leaders and key stakeholders with the aim of developing a fresh approach that is adoptable across all schools.
We will be joined by Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of Healthy MindED and the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition.
Also presenting will be Professor Miranda Wolpert of the Anna Freud Centre and University College London, the UK’s leading expert on what works and what doesn’t regarding children and young people’s mental health.
In addition to expert speakers, there will be numerous presentations from schools and health services sharing examples of best practice in areas such as whole school approaches to mental health, making effective CAMHS referrals, and managing transitions within and between schools.
Prof. Dame Sue Bailey said:
The strength of SCHOOLS NorthEast is that it represents such a large community of schools who are not only committed to academic excellence, but as importantly to the emotional wellbeing of their pupils. At a time when schools are potentially becoming more atomised and policy more fragmented, this group of schools has decided to share good practice, learn from collective successes (and mistakes) in order to improve the lives of children and young people in the North East.
That is why the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition are delighted to be working with SCHOOLS NorthEast. I personally feel privileged to be asked to chair the commission.