| Resource | Additional information | How to access |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching about Mental Health and emotional wellbeing | The guidance covers key aspects of teaching about mental health effectively and safely, including: Why it is important to teach about mental health and emotional wellbeing. Key principles in teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing safely and confidently. Building teaching on mental health into a planned PSHE programme. Addressing challenging mental health issues such as eating disorders, self-harm and suicide | A Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Teacher Guidance |
| Promoting children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing - A whole school and college approach | 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. | A Whole school and college approach |
| RSE definitions guide | A pack of Parent engagement questions is available to support schools with their policy development, and can be adapted for primary or secondary phase and to suit the school. These can be used in an online survey – enabling schools to listen to parents now and progress their parental consultation activities during school closure. | National Children's Bureau- Sex Education Forum membership |
| RSE definitions guide | The Sex Education Forum has published a new guide to support schools in navigating definitions for Relationships and Sex Education. Schools need to be able to identify sex education in order to implement the parental right to request their child is excused from sex education. The guide includes: a table exploring what may constitute sex education and where this content might be placed in the curriculum, 10 principles for how to approach definitions and a set of sample definitions. | The guide is free for Sex Education Forum members. It is available to purchase by non-members for £5.99 |
| Mentally healthy Schools: guidance on children's voice in primary schools | The gudiance covers why the child's voice is important, what it looks like in practice, how to work toward it and top tips. | A How to Have Conversations About Mental Health |
| Mental health and behaviour in schools | This guidance sets out how schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour. | GOV UK- Mental health and behaviour in schools |
| Preventing bullying | This guidance sets out support for schools on preventing and responding to bullying. | GOV UK- Preventing bullying |
| Mental health and wellbeing in primary schools -Preparing for recovery: Self-review and signposting tool | The tool is designed for school senior leadership teams to support schools seeking to build on their current practice. | Preparing for Recovery |
| Drugs: advice for schools | Guidance for school leaders and staff on managing drugs, drug-related incidents within schools and pastoral support for pupils. | DfE and ACPO drug advice |
| Self Harm: Guidance for School Based Staff | The aim of this guidance is to support Durham schools how to identify and respond to incidents of pupil self-harm. | Self-harm guidance for school based staff |
| Durham Insight | Durham Insight is a shared intelligence, research and knowledge base for County Durham. The aim is to provide users an easy way to access and share information, intelligence, research and knowledge for deeper insights about their local area or communities. | Durham Insight- Related factsheets: Children & Young People |
| Physical health and mental wellbeing (Primary and secondary) | Schools have flexibility to design and plan age-appropriate subject content, but this guidance sets out core areas for health and wellbeing that are appropriate for primary and secondary aged pupils. | GOV UK- Physical health and mental wellbeing (Primary and secondary) |