Tackling the mental health and well-being of young people

We talk to Simon Antwis from Steer Education (former headteacher and schools inspector) about how technology can help find those children in school suffering from mental health and offer support. We look at how technology has helped transform schools' data unity and pastoral care. We also touch on the struggles of children who hide their feelings by 'gaming the system' and how to reach them, with why girls' mental health is of particular concern. And finally, what teachers can do about the growing divide between girls' and boys' social and emotional well-being.

"We want to reverse this awful decline in mental health and well-being in young people." Simon Antwis, Steer Education 2022

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Useful links

1. Mental Health Awareness week 2022
2. Blog – Girls’ mental health “at a precipice” and increasingly worse than boys’, data shows
3. Blog – Mental health support – How should schools help students who don’t want to be helped?
4. FREE resource – Handy guide to teaching mindfulness
5. Relating podcast – How to teach mindfulness to children with Nadege Robinq
6. Find out more about Steer Education – Proactively safeguarding young people’s mental health
7. Follow Steer Education on Twitter @SteerEducation
8. Find out more about Cornerstones Education – Everything you need to build an ambitious primary curriculum
9. Follow Cornerstones Education on Twitter @Cornerstonesedu