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Strengths-based approaches to tackling loneliness

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.

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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…

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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…

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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

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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. 

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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…

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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.

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Time to reassess children’s mental health

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.

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Mental health is forever, not just for a week

Mental health is forever, not just for a week

This Mental Health Awareness Week, I reflect on how to deliver the best mental health outcomes possible.

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New Children’s Commissioner report highlights a national scandal

New Children’s Commissioner report highlights a national…

'Early access to mental health support' report shows that there is insufficient lower level preventative support available

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Five minute survey

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Five minute…

Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are under pressure. Last month it was reported that 65% of Local Authorities…

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