Mental health and wellbeing school policies
Various examples of schools' mental health and wellbeing policies, and actions to help you create your own.
This page from the Anna Freud Centre's 5 Steps Framework explores how to develop and write mental health and wellbeing policies in schools.
There is information about why it's important to have a mental health policy, action points to consider, and examples of existing policies from real schools.
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