Insights • mental health

Strengths-based approaches to tackling loneliness

Addressing loneliness through strengths-based approaches, such as social prescribing, independent travel training and befriending services, empower individuals to improve their wellbeing, and become less reliant on health and social care interventions.

by Freya O'Sullivan - May 10, 2022

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Mental Health Awareness Week: 3 takeaways from Mental Health First Aid training

Mental Health Awareness Week: 3 takeaways from Mental Health…

Earlier this month, Ebony Hughes explained why employee wellbeing is key in organisational resilience. This belief is not limited to…

by Rachel Angarano - May 13, 2021

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Mental Health Awareness Week – supporting mental wellbeing through a pandemic

Mental Health Awareness Week – supporting mental wellbeing…

Like many, the last year has had its ups and down, with many of the things that support my mental…

by Deborah Crossan - May 11, 2021

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Guest blogpost: let’s celebrate our schools as ‘healing communities’

Guest blogpost: let’s celebrate our schools as…

Never in the history of state education has work to foster wellbeing been more urgent - says Lincolnshire's Mary Meredith

by Mary Meredith - February 4, 2021

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Children’s Mental Health Week: the clear impacts of the pandemic

Children’s Mental Health Week: the clear impacts of the…

This year more so than ever, it feels important to shine the brightest of lights on Children's Mental Health Awareness Week.

by Olly Swann - February 2, 2021

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Solace Virtual Learning Week: impact of Covid on the workforce

Solace Virtual Learning Week: impact of Covid on the…

During Solace’s recent Virtual Learning Week I attended an online session on the impact of Covid on the workforce, presented…

by Nichola d'Urso - November 10, 2020

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NCASC 20: reflections on the ‘Minding the mental health gap’ session

NCASC 20: reflections on the ‘Minding the mental…

Today's session shone a focused light on the profound mental health challenges we are facing now, and will continue to face for many years to come.

by James Swaffield - November 5, 2020

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Time to reassess children’s mental health

Time and again over the past five years, children’s social workers have told me that the insufficiency of children and young people’s mental health support is a crippling factor preventing them getting the best outcomes.

by Charlotte Levey - July 1, 2019

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