Resource Hub

Public Health England: Guidance on supporting resilience and wellbeing for children and young people which can be used for policy planning.

Improve your confidence, knowledge and skills in supporting young people in crisis. Created by young people working in partnership with mental health experts. Short, accessible video guides and text resources. All for free.

Start a Conversation aims to raise awareness of suicide and signpost to support that is available.

Mindfulness in Schools is a charity whose aim is to encourage, support and research the teaching of secular mindfulness in schools.

This website provides resources on young people's mental health for parents and professionals, including guidance on supporting student mental health during GCSE exams and a wellbeing Action Plan for use with students.

This pack is to support both teachers and young people to learn about mental health and develop the skills and confidence to tackle stigma and discrimination in school and the wider community.

A factsheet from Barnardos to help parents, carers and their children to understand and process grief.

Guide to the Winston's Wish example bereavement policy for educational settings.

An example bereavement policy template by Winston's Wish in partnership with NAHT.

Information, resources and guides to support schools with primary aged children who have experienced bereavement.

Resources to engage in conversations with children designed to open up thinking and discussion around the topics of death, grief and bereavement.

Elephant's tea party provides fun resources to help equip children with coping skills for bereavement.

Leicestershire County Council's anti-bullying website. Advice and information for staff, parents/carers and pupils on all forms of bullying.

A resource guide for parents of a child with an eating disorder. Written by parents with lived experience.

Various toolkits, including for parents and educators, are provided giving advice for various supporters of children and young people suffering with eating disorders.

On this website Mind offer more information on eating problems, types of eating disorders, causes of eating problems, recovery & self-care and treatment and support.

The UK's eating disorder charity who provide additional information and support around eating disorders. In addition they also offer a helpline and one-to-one web chat service.

Provided by the BBC for KS2/KS3, there is an animated video called 'Anorexia - Kirsty's story'. This resource could be used by teachers in PSHE sessions to start conversations about eating disorders.

Anorexia & bulimia care provide a free educational resource, Body Positive Schools, designed to support flexible teaching, with classroom activities, videos, group project ideas and whole school approaches to promoting body positive confidence and culture.

This toolkit provides information, from the perspective of children, young people and families who have experienced suicide on how to talk about suicide, self-care and best practice on what schools have done well to support.

This guide provides information for schools and colleges on prevention, intervention and postvention.

The ZSA have created an online video that aims to raise awareness of suicide prevention and give you the skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide.

The ZSA have created an online video that aims to raise awareness of suicide prevention and give you the skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide.

R;pple is a digital tool, which if a user searches for harmful content online, they will first be guided through a filter of breathing exercises and then very simple, uncluttered and calmly presented strategies and forums, help lines and mental health services they can access both now and longer term:...

MindED (login required) have made a range of resources available to support schools with self-harm and suicide. This includes understanding self-harm and suicidal thinking, safety planning and post suicide bereavement.

As part of the programme delivered by the Start a Conversation team, the Leicestershire Educational Psychology Service shared a session on Managing Critical Incidents within Schools and other Educational Settings.

The Samaritans step by step service provides practical support to help schools prepare for and recover from a suspected or attempted suicide.

Developed by researchers at the University of Oxford, this guide includes information on the nature and causes of self-harm and how to support a young person for parents and carers.

This webpage provides advice to help understand why children and teenagers self-harm, and what you can do to support them.

A useful guide for school staff around understanding and supporting young people who self-harm.