Health and wellbeing in schools

Guidance and services

• Emotional health and wellbeing in schools
  Guidance to help schools promote emotional health and well-being in children and young people.
• Framework on embedding a whole-school approach to emotional and mental wellbeing
  Guidance to support the delivery and evaluation of the framework. It includes action plan development using case studies and examples of good practice.
• Substance misuse education: guidance
  Advice on good practice for teaching and dealing with substance misuse.
• The use of emergency adrenaline auto-injectors in schools
  How to produce a policy for the use of emergency adrenaline auto-injectors in schools.
• Emotional health and wellbeing: best practice in schools and early years settings
  Guidance on how to promote wellbeing and support pupils with mental health problems.
• Use of emergency salbutamol inhalers in schools
  How to produce a policy for the use of emergency salbutamol inhalers in schools.
• Increasing access for disabled pupils: planning guidance
  Statutory guidance on creating and maintaining school accessibility strategies and plans.
• ASDinfoWales website
  Information and resources for individuals affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
• Supporting learners with healthcare needs
  Supporting learners with healthcare needs.
• Independent counselling services: guidance for local authorities
  Guidance on the services that should be made available for children and young people.
• School nursing framework
  Standards to follow for nurses in primary and secondary schools.
• Sport related concussion and brain damage
  Guidance on how to recognise the signs of concussion and when it is safe for young people to return to sport after head injury.
• Responding to issues of self-harm and thoughts of suicide in young people
  Guidance for adults who work with children and young people.
• Nurture groups: handbook for schools
  Guidance for school teachers on how to set up and run nurture groups to help improve children's behaviour and learning.
• Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and the counselling service
  Guidance on their services and how they can work together to provide the most appropriate treatment.
• Accessing school and community-based counselling: coronavirus
  How children and young people can access remote and telephone counselling during the pandemic.
• School and community-based counselling operating toolkit
  Guidance to help school and community-based organisations set up counselling services.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Whole-School Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing Stakeholder Reference Group meeting: 17 February 2020
  Meeting
  Whole-School Approach to Mental Health and Well-being Stakeholder Reference Group
  The agenda and minutes of the meeting held in Cardiff.
• Whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing framework guidance: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of how the framework helps schools to review their wellbeing provision and make plans on their weaknesses and strengths.