Promoting the emotional health and wellbeing of children, young people and staff can bring valuable benefits to schools.
It:
- can help children, young people and staff to feel happier and more motivated, and prevent mental health problems;
- contributes positively to priorities like enhancing teaching and learning, raising standards, promoting social inclusion and improving behaviour and attendance;
- involves children and young people more fully in the way their school operates;
- helps to meet legal, ethical and curricular obligations.
Investors in Health, the West Sussex Healthy School Programme promotes a whole school approach to emotional health
that enhanced the personal and social development and the health and well being of the whole school community. We work in
partnership with a number of key agencies to facilitate a programme of support for schools.
Emotional health is one of the key strands for schools wishing to achieve National Healthy School Status, and we work with
interested schools to identify and address need within the school community, and thus support whole school improvement.