| 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. | PSHE - Teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing |
| 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. | Gov.uk - Promoting children and young people's mental health and wellbeing |
| 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 |
| Mentally healthy schools: guidance on children's voice in primary schools | The guidance covers why the child's voice is important, what it looks like in practice, how to work toward it and top tips. | Mentally Healthy Schools - mental health in primary schools |
| 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. | National Children's Bureau: -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. | Gov,uk - drugs advice for schools |
| 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.pdf |
| 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) |