07/01/2025: Social work opinion split over police involvement in mental health incidents, poll finds

Following an evaluation of the right care, right person policy, we asked social workers their opinion on police withdrawing from mental health incidents.

Community Care

07/01/2025: Child mental health crisis: Better resilience is the solution, say experts

Jane Graham has been a school nurse for nearly 20 years – and during this time the nature of her work has completely changed. “When I started, the majority of the support we provided was for physical health, like asthma, allergic reactions and injuries,” she says. “Now it’s mental health.”

BBC News

07/01/2025: Revenge Porn Helpline Welcomes New Legislation to Criminalise the Creation and Sharing of Deepfakes But Still Raises Concern Amid Remaining Gaps

The Revenge Porn Helpline welcomes the UK Government’s recent announcement to introduce new offences targeting the creation and sharing of sexually explicit ‘deepfake’ images and other forms of non-consensual intimate image abuse.

South West Grid for Learning

02/01/2025: Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year

Charity says NHS failure to help more young people sooner is a ‘shocking betrayal’.

Guardian

19/12/2024: Covid Inquiry to hear children’s personal accounts of loneliness and lost learning

The Covid Inquiry is to hear children’s first-hand accounts of life during the pandemic and lockdowns following the completion of a project to collect hundreds of their stories.

Children and Young People Now

11/12/2024: Puberty blockers for under-18s banned indefinitely

The ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced.

BBC News

11/12/2024: Services will shut, Mencap warns on National Insurance rise

A leading charity that supports people with learning disabilities says it may be forced to stop running at least 60 of its services as a result of increasing National Insurance costs.

BBC News

09/12/2024: Puberty blockers: Can a drug trial solve one of medicine’s most controversial debates?

It is among the most delicate and controversial challenges in modern medicine – how to determine whether the benefits of puberty blockers (or drugs that delay puberty) outweigh the potential harms.

BBC News

08/12/2024: ‘I want to show teens it’s ok to talk’

A 13-year-old boy who is starring in a short film about mental health has said he hopes it will show teenagers that it is “okay to talk”.

BBC News

05/12/2024: Welcome Rise Of Numbers In Drug & Alcohol Treatment

2023/24 treatment stats show welcome (7%) rise in numbers in drug & alcohol treatment.

Russell Webster