Â鶹ÒùÔº

A Professional Workforce for the Early Years? Policy, practice and sector responses

Research Commission: Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

This Seminar is the 4th in the Research Commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four...

Child Centered Diversity in quality early childhood education and care

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is internationally recognised as a social investment strategy for supporting parental employment and providing the foundations to children’s...

A professional early childhood workforce for a peaceful, shared and sustainable Northern Ireland

This presentation will explore some of the historical policy developments that have shaped the current Early childhood workforce in Northern Ireland and will propose the radical structural reform...

Self-harm in primary-aged school children

Finding ways to support and identify children and young people (CYP) who self-harm is an important social issue. Incidences of self-harm in CYP in the UK have risen in the last 20 years, with the...

Editorial: Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...

Whole-school approaches to building resilience and promoting mental health: Embracing complexity

In the context of increasing demand for specialist mental health (MH) services, emphasis has been placed on school-based early intervention to prevent or de-escalate later MH issues. The case for...

Championing mental health in schools with Book of Beasties: The mental wellness card game

Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools Last year’s State of the nation 2019 report (DfE, 2019a) on children and young people’s wellbeing indicated that the majority...

Continuities in mental wellbeing from adolescence into early adulthood

We are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...

Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog presents a...

Education practitioners’ and students’ perspectives on youth mental health first aid provision within education settings in England

The Youth Mental Health First Aid in Schools programme (Youth MHFA) is a policy initiative intended to enable education practitioners to spot the signs of mental health issues in children and...

Paul Croll

Paul Croll is emeritus professor of education at the University of Reading where he was the first director of the Institute of Education. He has served as editor of the British Journal of...

Sveta Mayer

Dr Sveta Mayer is a lecturer at UCL Institute of Education and member of Bloomsbury Colleges Centre for Educational Neuroscience. She is involved in interdisciplinary research, drawing upon...