Get ready for Safer Internet Day (9th Feb 2021) and celebrate the amazing range of information and opportunities online, and its potential to inform, connect and inspire us, whilst also looking at how young people can separate fact from fiction.

#AnInternetWeTrust

New to PHE Partnerships’ schools programme, NHS approved Every Mind Matters Building connections resources aims to encourage young people in Year 6, KS3 and KS4 to discuss loneliness and provide them with self-care techniques they can use when they’re feeling lonely.

To support teachers on mental health, the Every Mind Matters tool is available on the School Zone to provide support on simple, practical advice for a healthier mind.

How do our biological systems work together to respond to chronic stress? What do these responses mean for early learning and lifelong health? And when we say that early experiences matter, what do we mean by early? This episode of The Brain Architects podcast addresses all these questions and more.

CAMHS Talk podcasts bring you interviews and discussions between the service professionals and service users. This is an opportunity to discuss and debate issues around child and adolescent mental health.

The Cybersurvey – carried out by Youthworks in partnership with Internet Matters – is the largest and most robust survey of its kind in the UK, with nearly 15,000 children aged 11-17 taking part across 82 schools across the country. In the latest report, it draws out key themes from what young people tell us about their online lives.

The Children's Society has published their Good Childhood Report 2020. Some of the key findings include children are significantly unhappy with their lives as whole than they were 2 years ago.

The month-long campaign, ‘Something’s Not Right’, encourages young people to recognise different forms of abuse, report it and get help. The campaign will see animated adverts aimed at secondary school pupils aged 13+, running across Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook.

This year, as we draw closer to the festive season, it’s clear that school celebrations are going to be different from previous years. For many, however, there’s a desire to keep things as normal as possible and that includes annual festive performances. Given new lockdown restrictions and social distancing measures, it seems more and more likely that any events performed for an audience will be hosted virtually using online broadcasting solutions. T

This free briefing session will enable delegates to understand the Multi Agency Response to Child Exploitation in Bedfordshire, the tools to utilise when working with Children and the Response in Bedfordshire Police & the Local Authorities.

You may be interested in listening to this BBC Radio 4 article (from around 52 minutes in) where a survivor talks about her experience where £31,000 debt was accrued by her partner and she lost her home because of it. It goes on to talk to Refuge about economic abuse and their Know Economic Abuse campaign.

TRAINING UPDATE: Our Safeguarding Bedfordshire training programme is now delivered as virtual classroom sessions…

Foundation Years hosted a video podcast on the new Development Matters, non-statutory curriculum guidance which supports the delivery of the revised early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework.