The ONS ‘Children’s Well-being 2015’ report reveals a number of findings that provide insight into mental health problems in children. A new measure of children’s mental ill-health is included in response to feedback from stakeholders who identified mental health as missing from the initial set of measures for children. It uses the total difficulties score from the child self-completion aspect of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey...

Pupil wellbeing NASUWT The Teachers’ Union has released figures following a survey of teachers on pupil wellbeing. Findings from survey responses received from 1,359 teachers include: 75% said they are aware of pupils being bullied in school and 70% were aware of pupils being bullied online or via mobile phone outside the school day; 39% said they were aware of students being sexually harassed by other pupils; 96% believe they come into contact with pupils who are experiencing mental health...