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The right prescription? Young people, mental health and social prescribing

Author headshot By Caroline Bond and Ruth Farrimond-Goff Filed Under: All posts, Education, Health and Social Care Posted: March 19, 2025

The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people is a growing concern amongst policymakers and practitioners, with recent data from the World Health Organisation suggesting that one in seven young people globally aged 10-19 years, experience a diagnosable mental health condition. In this article, Ruth Farrimond-Goff and Professor Caroline Bond examine the implications […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, schools, wellbeing, Youth mental health

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Social and Emotional Learning for Every Child: Why SEL Matters

By Ola Demkowicz, Suzanne Hamilton, Lauren Burke and Annie O'Brien Filed Under: Education, Health and Care Posted: November 6, 2024

As concerns surrounding children’s mental health continue to grow, the role schools can play in supporting children’s mental health is receiving more attention. Universal, school-based interventions known as  “Social and emotional learning” (SEL) interventions, delivered to all children, are a cost-effective and non-stigmatising approach to supporting wellbeing and healthy child development. These interventions aim to […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, Health & Social Care, MIE, schools, SEED, Youth mental health

Locked up like adults – COVID-19 experiences for children in custodial settings

Dr Charlotte Lennox By Charlotte Lennox Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care, Open Minds Posted: March 19, 2024

During the early period of the pandemic, there was a lack of detailed guidance for many groups, including the secure estate. For children in custodial settings, this meant staff often applied measures intended for adult prisons, in lieu of any other information. Here, Dr Charlotte Lennox shares her research showing children in such settings were an invisible group […]

Tagged With: #OpenMinds, Children & Young People, COVID-19, crime, Health & Social Care, justice, mental health, SHS, Youth mental health

A place to #BeeWell: Neighbourhood effects on young people’s wellbeing

By Neil Humphrey Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Devo, Education, Health and Care Posted: October 19, 2023

There is a public health crisis in young people’s wellbeing. Approximately one in six young people experience high levels of emotional difficulties that are likely to warrant significant additional support. A number of factors can impact wellbeing, and the neighbourhood in which a young person lives is one of them, with differences seen across Greater […]

Tagged With: #PowerinPlace, caring responsibilities & children, Children & Young People, communities, education, Greater Manchester, inequalities, Levelling Up, local government, mental health, MIE, schools, students, urban, Youth mental health

Why do teachers need to think about student experiences of loneliness?

By Pamela Qualter, Rebecca Jefferson and Lily Verity Filed Under: Education, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: June 15, 2023

Globally, many governments have set an objective to reduce loneliness, including among adolescents. So far, however, the focus has been on individuals, and is most often out of school time. In this article, Professor Pamela Qualter, Dr Rebecca Jefferson, and Dr Lily Verity discuss their work in the UK, and internationally, and argue whole school […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, local government, loneliness, mental health, MIE, schools, SEED, students, Youth mental health

Child of the North: Child mental wellbeing

By Pamela Qualter, Neil Humphrey, Ola Demkowicz, Matt Sutton and Stephanie Gillibrand Filed Under: Education, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: November 2, 2022

Children’s mental health and wellbeing was deteriorating prior to COVID-19, but there was significant decline during the pandemic, particularly in the North of England. This blog post covers the collaboration between Professor Pamela Qualter, Professor Matt Sutton, Stephanie Gillibrand, Professor Neil Humphrey and Dr Ola Demkowicz in their study of children’s mental health, originally published […]

Tagged With: #IHPO, AMBS, Children & Young People, communities, COVID-19, education, gender inequalities, inequalities, Levelling Up, loneliness, MIE, Pandemic, schools, SEED, SHS, wellbeing, Youth mental health

Child of the North: The economic impacts of child health

By Rose Atkins and Luke Munford Filed Under: Health and Care, Health and Social Care, Levelling up, UK economy Posted: October 26, 2022

The economic performance of the North of England consistently lags behind the national average. One factor that could partly explain this ‘productivity gap’ is the poorer physical and mental health of children in the North, along with a widening educational gap, with long-lasting impacts on the labour market. In this blog, Dr Rose Atkins and […]

Tagged With: #IHPO, AMBS, Children & Young People, COVID-19, education, gender inequalities, Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, inequalities, Levelling Up, MERI, micra, Pandemic, schools, SHS, SoSS, students, wellbeing, Youth mental health

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LGBT+ inequalities in adolescent wellbeing

By Neil Humphrey Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion Posted: June 21, 2022

Improving wellbeing in every area of the UK is the overarching ambition of the Levelling Up White Paper, and government has said it will undertake further work to supplement existing wellbeing data at a subnational level. In Greater Manchester, a community-led, hyper-local project is underway to understand and improve children and young people’s wellbeing, and […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, Greater Manchester, inclusive growth, inequalities, LGBTQ+, MIE, Pride, SEED, wellbeing, Youth mental health

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19

By Luke Munford, Pamela Qualter and Matt Sutton Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Education, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Care, Health and Social Care, Urban Posted: December 20, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, growing evidence has shown the effects of the disease, and measures to contain it, have not been felt equally across the UK, with the North of England one of the hardest hit regions. Even before the pandemic, the North suffered from higher levels of poverty, poor health, and inequality compared to […]

Tagged With: #IHPO, AMBS, Children & Young People, COVID-19, economy, Greater Manchester, Health & Social Care, housing, inequalities, Levelling Up, productivity, schools, SEED, SoSS, welfare, wellbeing, Youth mental health

Children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing: moving towards evidence-based, data-driven responses

By Neil Humphrey Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Education, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Care Posted: March 25, 2021

As children and young people return to classroom education, schools have a vital role to play in assessing and supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Here, Professor Neil Humphrey from the Manchester Institute of Education argues that schools should routinely collect reliable mental health and wellbeing data, with which they can ‘build […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, Greater Manchester, Health & Social Care, mental health, MIE, schools, SoSS, Youth mental health

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