Children’s mental health is hugely important and very much in the news at the moment. If you have a concern about your own child, or another child’s, mental health, there are number of things that you can do:

• You can contact your GP and ask for their advice and guidance
• You can contact the school and talk to a member of the Child Protection or Pastoral Teams
• You can visit the websites outlined below for further information and advice

Useful links

There are a range of external organisations that help support the safeguarding and mental health of young people. 

You may also want to visit the NHS website's page on 5 steps to mental wellbeing or the NHS page on stress, anxiety and depression in young people. The charity Young Minds has further advice and guidance on young people's mental health plus the online platform Kooth, for children and young people aged 11-25, offers free counselling, self-help tools and forums. See the attachment below for more details of how to access Kooth.

Stem4

We are stem4, the UK’s leading digital mental health charity for children and young people. We offer a suite of 5 evidence-based mental health apps that support various mental health conditions as well as digitally delivered mental health literacy programmes in schools.

We also bridge the digital divide by offering in-person facilitation of mental health education in schools and mental health training of parents and carers, educators, and health professionals, as well as providing multiple, clinically informed, printable resources.

Our free offerings help thousands of young people manage anxiety, self-harm, depression and eating disorders across the UK every single day, whilst also learning to build resilience and become safe online