England & Wales

Zippy’s Friends is running in seven areas in England – Dudley, Durham, Northumberland, Southampton, Southwark, Spelthorne and Warwickshire. In most cases the programme has been adopted by the Local Education Authority (LEA), which has responsibility for all the state-funded schools within its area.

Southampton, on the south coast of England, was the first LEA to make emotional literacy an official priority and the first to offer Zippy’s Friends. At the other end of the country, the programme has spread widely across the county of Durham, and is also running in neighbouring Northumberland. In Warwickshire, Zippy’s Friends is delivered by the Treasure Project, a school service that aims to support children’s emotional development and resilience through early intervention, and Dudley took on the programme as part of its Healthy Schools initiative. Spelthorne is a confederation of 31 schools in north-west Surrey, and Zippy’s Friends was the first project taken on by all its primary schools; the West Surrey Foundation is now adopting the programme as well.

Currently, only one school in Wales - Howell's School, Llandaff - is running Zippy's Friends, and it was the first private school to adopt the programme. The school is a member of the Girls' Day School Trust, the largest group of independent schools in the UK, and several more of the Trust schools are taking on Zippy's Friends in 2007-2008.

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