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  • Staff wellbeing in schools: what it is, what it isn’t and why it’s important

    All this week, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families together with Teacher Tapp are conducting a survey examining the mental health and wellbeing of thousands of teach...

  • Talking Teacher Wellbeing

    Over the last few years the world has woken up to a simple fact: the best correlate of adult life satisfaction is not income, but physical and mental health.

  • AFNCCF commissions nationwide survey of Staff Wellbeing in Schools

    The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families together with Teacher Tapp will next week launch a survey examining the mental health and wellbeing of thousands of teachers acro...

  • BBC focus on The Family School

    On Tuesday BBC1 broadcasted their feature documentary Back to School with Mum and Dad which focused on the work and experiences of the ground-breaking Family School in North London.

  • Talking Treatment Endings with Kelsey Sonn

    When clinical improvement has been limited, the end of treatment can be a challenging time not just for young people but also their families and for practitioners. This is a critically i...

  • Treatment Endings Report Launched

    Today the Anna Freud Learning Network launched a new report: In search of an ending: Managing treatment closure in challenging circumstances in child mental health services.

  • Schools wanted for new research programme

    The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is looking for primary and secondary schools to take part in our 2018 - 2020 Education for Wellbeing research programme to implem...

  • What public mental health can learn from Ulijaszek’s 'Models of Obesity'

    An epiphany came to me when I read Stanley Ulijaszek’s book, Models of Obesity (Ulijaszek 2017). For some time, I had been concerned that the focus of mental health policy and research i...

  • Girls at high risk of emotional problems, new research reveals

    New research released today at a young people’s mental health conference shows that girls are more than twice as likely to experience emotional difficulties as boys, while boys are signi...