Updated guidance on promoting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing.
Monday 8th February 2021
During the last week Public Health England has published an update to its guidance for schools and colleges on the promotion of pupils’ mental health and emotional wellbeing.
This document sets out key actions that headteachers and college principals can take to embed a whole school approach to promoting emotional health and wellbeing. These actions are informed by evidence and practitioner feedback about what works. They build on what many schools and colleges are doing across the country but, if applied consistently and comprehensively will help protect and promote student emotional health and wellbeing.
In Wiltshire this and other guidance has been provided for educational settings as a web based resource, along with links to national and local support, to support the implementation of good practice.
The document describes the ‘Healthy Schools’ or ‘health promoting schools’ approach as relevant and consistent with effective whole school educational practice, using the London Healthy Schools audit as an example.
Wiltshire schools can use the Wiltshire Healthy Schools online audit to ensure they are implementing effective practice.
