Resource Hub

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.

• Life Skills DART access to some free downloadable resources for KS1 and KS2 on drug issues.

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.

• The PSHE Association have created a range of KS1 PowerPoint lesson plans on drugs and alcohol.

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.

Curriculum-linked classroom teaching resources provide fun activities with a dog themed context to engage your pupils and bring learning to life.

• Henry- useful information on free healthy recipes for all mealtimes, snacks and easy affordable lunchbox ideas.

• Checklist for headteachers: to help improve school food culture and increase the take up of school dinners.
• This is a checklist of successful actions for schools. It includes specific actions that improve school food culture and increase take-up of school dinners.

• Guidance for schools a practical guide: around food standards to help develop healthy eating habits amongst young people.

• Guidance on Schools food in England: around planning and providing food in schools. It explains how legislation applies to food provided within schools.

This advice will help when planning and providing food in schools. It explains how legislation applies to food provided within schools in England. It...

• Veg Power: lots of ways to encourage children to eat vegetables and information on how schools can get involved in campaigns and posters, charts that can be downloaded.

• Handy guide for school caterers: around portion sizes and how to make sure school meals are healthy and balanced.

This practical guidance and toolkit on managing self-harm was produced for schools in Cornwall, but it brings together a variety of information on self-harm including the signs, assessing risk and signposting to more advice.

This guideline covers assessment, management and preventing recurrence for children, young people and adults who have self-harmed. It includes those with a mental health problem, neurodevelopmental disorder or learning disability and applies to all sectors that work with people who have self-harmed....

Leicestershire Educational Psychology Service: A bitesize video lasting 8 minutes providing an introductory understanding of self-harm in children and young people. It aims to provide information on why children or young people may self-harm and ways of supporting self-harm behaviour through finding...

The Centre for Suicide Research together with colleagues has produced a new resource on Self-harm for School Staff - 'Young people who self-harm: A guide for school staff.'

• The Leicestershire Healthy Schools Team have created guidance to support schools to develop their own Physical Activity Policy. Please find the document below.

• New guidelines to support to support disabled children to be more active.

UK's Chief Medical Officers publish first ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people.

• New guidelines to support disabled children and young people to be more active
• Guidelines advise 20 minutes of...

• PE and sport premium for primary schools How much PE and sport premium funding schools receive and advice on how it should be spent.

• What works in schools and colleges to increase physical activity? A resource for head teachers, college principals, staff working in education settings, school nurses, directors of public health, Active Partnerships and wider partners.

A resource and activity which explains what you can do to help air pollution by actively travelling to school (see below)

• Teacher training: physical health and fitness Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about physical health and fitness.

The PSHE Association offers a wealth of support for teachers including health and emotional wellbeing guidance, and lesson plans and PowerPoints for key stages 1-4.

Through the school zone the public health England team have provided a range of resources across several mental health and wellbeing topics, including building connections and transition to secondary school.

Useful links and sources of mental health support for children and young people, parents, carers, and school and college staff to get the advice and help they need.