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The Children’s Plan: Reforming Education for Every Child

The Children's Commissioner's School Census is out and mental health is a key concern Key Concerns and Statistics: In 2022, almost one million children in England had an active referral to mental health services. Children and young people's mental health services...

DfE Guidance Update: Peer Support Networks

Peer support networks for school and college mentalhealth leads The Department for Education have released their updated Guidance document Promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges to include a new section on peer support groups....

Find out more about our new partners: Nudge Education

  Our partners at Nudge Education provide a variety of bespoke services for young people who are chronically disengaged, out of education, or at risk.   "At Nudge Education, we are committed to building a world where no young person is left behind. The reality is...

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Alerts and Releases

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and the Introduction of ‘V Levels’

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and ‘V Levels’

by | Mar 10, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases, Blog | 0 Comments

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and the Introduction of ‘V Levels’ By AMHIE News Team 10 March 2026 The Department for Education (DfE) has today unveiled a...

Government launches a landmark consultation on UK children's digital wellbeing

DfE Press Release: launch of a landmark consultation on UK children’s digital wellbeing

by | Mar 2, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

Digital Wellbeing: What the landmark consultation on online safety means for UK schools. The digital landscape is shifting. On 2nd March 2026, the UK Government...

Every child achieving and thriving white paper Reforms to the schools and SEND systems in England to ensure that every child can achieve and thrive.

DfE Policy: “Every child achieving and thriving”

by | Feb 23, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

The new policy reform white paper has just landed - here's what you need to know The "Every Child Achieving and Thriving" white paper outlines a comprehensive plan for...

450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools

DfE Press Release: 450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools

by | Jan 27, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

"AI in the Classroom: Levelled Playing Fields or New Safeguarding Frontiers?" The landscape of British education is shifting. Following the recent government...

£200 million landmark SEND teacher training

DfE Press Release: £200 million landmark SEND teacher training

by | Jan 16, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

Backed by £200 million, every teacher to receive training to support SEND pupils In a press release today (16th January 2026) the DfE have announced a new requirement...

Government to introduce academy trust inspections

DfE Press Release: New academy trust inspections

by | Jan 8, 2026 | Alerts and releases, News | 0 Comments

Government to introduce academy trust inspections "In a press release, the Education Secretary has today tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools...

£3bn investment to end postcode lottery for children with SEND Around 50,000 specialist places to be created nationwide – making sure more children with SEND can thrive alongside their friends at their local school.

DfE Press Release: £3 Billion Investment in SEND

by | Dec 12, 2025 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

The government is investing £3 billion to thousands of new specialist places for children with SEND. In a press release today (12/12/2025) the government have announced...

DfE Family Hubs

DfE Press Release: Family Hubs rollout for 2026

by | Dec 4, 2025 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

Following on from the announcement in July, the DfE have set out their plans for the best start family hubs rollout - here's what you need to know Things have changed...

Budget 2025 and what that means for mental health in education

The Budget 2025 and Mental Health in Education

by | Nov 27, 2025 | News, Alerts and releases | 0 Comments

Yesterdays Budget saw the introduction of funding for various areas within education. Let's talk about what that means going forward Budget 2025: Let's Talk About the...

Blog

From Policy to Practice: Why Belonging Is a Felt Experience, Not a Metric

From Policy to Practice: Why Belonging Is a Felt Experience, Not a Metric

by | Mar 27, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

From Policy to Practice: Why Belonging Is a Felt Experience, Not a Metric By Mohammad Umaid Director, Al-Fateh Institute of Health Sciences | DASCIN Ambassador...

Neurodiversity celebration week 2026: 7 changes to transform neurodivergent support

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2026

by | Mar 16, 2026 | Blog, News | 0 Comments

From Reactive to Proactive: 7 Changes to Transform Neurodivergent Support. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and...

8 pillars of mental health in education

From Survival to Strategy: The 8 Pillars of mental health in education

by | Mar 12, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

Why the 8 Pillars are the Future of Educational Mental Health The UK education sector is currently navigating one of its most challenging eras. School leaders are...

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and the Introduction of ‘V Levels’

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and ‘V Levels’

by | Mar 10, 2026 | News, Alerts and releases, Blog | 0 Comments

Breaking News: Landmark Post-16 Reforms and the Introduction of ‘V Levels’ By AMHIE News Team 10 March 2026 The Department for Education (DfE) has today unveiled a...

Children's Mental Health Week 2026

Children’s Mental Health Week 2026: belonging

by | Feb 6, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

How Teacher Relationships Enhance Student Belonging in Schools Why relationships matter more than ever in schools. When children talk about school, they rarely start...

Reasonable adjustments for mobile phone bans

Reasonable adjustments for mobile phone bans

by | Jan 29, 2026 | News, Blog, Guidance | 0 Comments

Advice on implementing the DfE mobile phone bans for schools and reasonable adjustments. In January 2026, the Department for Education released updated guidance on...

International Day of Education: Co-creation and Mental Health in Education

International Day of Education 2026

by | Jan 22, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

International Day of Education 2026: Co-creation and Mental Health in Education Every year on 24 January, the world marks the International Day of Education,...

Bridging the Digital Divide: What the ‘Children of the 2020s’ Study Means for Our Schools

Bridging the Digital Divide: What the ‘Children of the 2020s’ Study Means for Our Schools

by | Jan 14, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

The DfE release ‘Children of the 2020s’ research brief Lily Blakeledge January 2026 As educators and Mental Health Leads, we are often on the frontline of the shifting...

Why Psychological Flexibility Is a Superpower for Young People

Why Psychological Flexibility Is a Superpower for Young People

by | Jan 12, 2026 | News, Blog | 0 Comments

Why Psychological Flexibility Is a Superpower for Young People By Nic Hooper January 2026 Growing up today can feel overwhelming. Young people are navigating school...

Guidance

Reasonable adjustments for mobile phone bans

Reasonable adjustments for mobile phone bans

by | Jan 29, 2026 | News, Blog, Guidance | 0 Comments

Advice on implementing the DfE mobile phone bans for schools and reasonable adjustments. In January 2026, the Department for Education released updated guidance on...

plan for change in 2025/2026

Your “Plan for Change” in 2025/26

by | Aug 14, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

"Plan for Change": What the New Academic Year Means for Mental Health in UK Education As the new school year begins, let's look at how the government's "Plan for...

Ofsted renewed framework

Ofsted’s renewed framework sets out new measures to ensure a steady and assured start to inspections

by | Jul 29, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

Ofsted has today announced several measures to reassure education providers about the November roll-out of inspections under the renewed inspection framework. Read...

Government publishes final statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance for schools.

DfE Guidance update:  Relationships, Sex and Health Education

by | Jul 15, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

Government publishes final statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance for schools. "Children and young people will be better protected from the scourge...

DfE Guidance: Peer support networks for school and college mental health leads

DfE Guidance Update: Peer Support Networks

by | Jul 15, 2025 | News, Featured, Guidance | 0 Comments

Peer support networks for school and college mentalhealth leads The Department for Education have released their updated Guidance document Promoting and supporting...

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Guidance update: Keeping Children Safe in Education

by | Jul 10, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

We talk you through the guidance updates for 2025 Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 The "Keeping children safe in...

Nurturing Young Minds: Understanding and Supporting Children's Mental Health

Nurturing Young Minds: Understanding and Supporting Children’s Mental Health

by | Jun 30, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

Nurturing Young Minds: Understanding and Supporting Children's Mental Health Children's mental health challenges affect an estimated 10-20% of children and adolescents...

Why every school should have a trained mental health lead

Why every school should have a trained mental health lead

by | Jun 17, 2025 | Guidance, News | 0 Comments

  Why every school should have a trained mental health lead   The education sector is facing a growing crisis in mental health and wellbeing, with worrying...

Ask the Expert Mental Health Awareness Week

Ask the Expert: Mental Health Awareness Week

by | May 12, 2025 | News, Guidance | 0 Comments

  Open Awards Ask the Expert for Mental Health Awareness Week   "What can we do to normalise mental health and wellbeing in education? As it's both...

Newsletters

AMHIE Newsletter March 2026

by | Mar 31, 2026 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Happy Easter! Here's a quick low down on what happened in March 2026. Welcome to our Easter newsletter for March 2026, we've had podcasts and pillars and good chat...

AMHIE Newsletter February 2026

AMHIE Newsletter February 2026

by | Feb 27, 2026 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

White Papers and educational reform - February 2026 has taken us into a new era. So here we are in February and we finally have an answer to the question that's been...

AMHIE Newsletter January 2026

AMHIE Newsletter January 2026

by | Jan 30, 2026 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

It's finally the end of January 2026! Here's your news round up for the month. It's the beginning of 2026 and what a year it's been so far, we've had flooding and power...

December 2025

AMHIE Newsletter December 2025

by | Dec 31, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Happy New Year! It's your AMHIE news round up for December 2025 It's the end of 2025 and what a year it's been for the sector and for AMHIE, we started our first...

AMHIE Newsletter November 2025

AMHIE Newsletter November 2025

by | Nov 28, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Your AMHIE news round up for November 2025 Hello and welcome to our monthly round up of all the news, blogs and information we shared this November 2025. We have been...

AMHIE October 2025 Newsletter

AMHIE Newsletter October 2025

by | Oct 31, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Your AMHIE news round up for October 2025 Hello and welcome to our monthly round up of all the news, blogs and information we shared this October. We had hoped to be...

AMHIE Newsletter September 2025

by | Sep 30, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Welcome to our September 2025 Newsletter: A new look for a new academic year! Hello and welcome to our brand new look for the new academic year, we are so excited to be...

August 2025 Newsletter

AMHIE August 2025 Newsletter

by | Sep 1, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Welcome to our August 2025 Newsletter! We're back from the summer break to catch you up on anything you might have missed throughout the August 2025 holiday. As always...

AMHIE July 2025 Newsletter

AMHIE July 2025 Newsletter

by | Aug 1, 2025 | News, Newsletters | 0 Comments

Welcome to our July 2025 Newsletter! It’s the summer holidays! And I know a lot of you won’t read this until after the break but we are still open, we are still working...

Research

New data suggests that 'adolescents who are already struggling emotionally are more likely to increase their screen use.'

Surprising new research “screens don’t cause depression”

by | Jan 19, 2026 | News, Research | 0 Comments

New data suggests that 'adolescents who are already struggling emotionally are more likely to increase their screen use.' In a new study titled "How do social media...

School isolation and wellbeing

New Research: School isolation rooms damaging pupil wellbeing

by | Oct 31, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

New research from the University of Manchester highlights how isolation can be damaging to pupil wellbeing. A compelling new study from the University of Manchester,...

New report from the Sutton Trust

Sutton Report: Socio-economic Inequalities in SEND

by | Oct 16, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

A new report from the Sutton Trust examines the socio-economic inequalities within the SEND system in England The new report, released today (16th October 2025)...

Social media use and lowered cognitive function

“Social media use links to lowered cognitive performance”

by | Oct 15, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

A new study published this week links social media use with lowered cognitive function The new study suggests a link between social media use and poorer cognition in...

How verbal abuse effects wellbeing

New Research: How verbal abuse effects mental wellbeing

by | Sep 8, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

A new study reveals links between adult mental health and verbal abuse in childhood This research from BMJ Open examines the relationship between childhood physical and...

The impact of a shorter working week

New report: The impact of a shorter working week

by | Aug 19, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

The Mental Health Foundation reports the impact of a shorter working week on their team. "In April 2024, the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) joined the hundreds of...

Ofsted Annual Report: changes and trends

Ofsted Annual Report 2024/2025

by | Jul 31, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

The Ofsted annual report has been released, so lets summarise the key changes and trends in the data for the 2024/25 school year. 2023/24 Annual Report 2024/25 Annual...

Understanding the drivers of young people's mental health

New Report: Understanding the drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health

by | Jul 21, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

A new report from The Youth Futures foundation highlights some key drivers in young people's mental health Over the past decade, mental ill health among young people...

Enhancing referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: the EN-CAMHS mixed-methods study

New Research: Enhancing referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

by | Jul 1, 2025 | News, Research | 0 Comments

The NIHR has released new research into CAMHS referrals The EN-CAMHS (Enhancing referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) mixed-methods study aimed to...

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