According to figures from Mind, one in four people will experience mental health problems each year in England, and one in six people report experiencing a common mental health problem like anxiety in any given week. This page contains resources to help you support your learners and yourself.
The Mindful Toolkit includes information cards and task cards. It was designed to be used with prisoners with a range of SEND needs but it particularly focuses on mental well-being. The resource was developed and trialled by a group of prison-based learning support specialists working with learners with SEND. Each task card is mapped to a SEND pathway: Communication and interaction, Learning and cognition, Social, emotional and mental health, and Sensory and hearing impairments.
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) commissioned Education Support in February 2019 to research the levels of wellbeing of SET Members who represent a broad spectrum of practitioners in the post-14 education sector.
The Understanding the wellbeing of the post-14 education workforce report highlights three work-related areas which SET members said would enhance their wellbeing and benefit them in their roles as practitioners across further education, vocational training and teaching:
- collegial and effective leadership and management
- autonomy and trust
- additional support for newly-qualified teachers and Further Education (FE) professionals changing roles