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We are delighted to have been invited to present at The International Young Carers Conference (3rd-6th May 2021).

Zippy’s Friends has been included in NHS Education for Scotland’s new Early Intervention Framework for Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Partnership for Children is proud to be supporting Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 (1-7 February).

To celebrate the festive season, we asked schools to get creative and design the official Partnership for Children Christmas Card for 2020.

We have developed a selection of play-based activities to promote young children's social and emotional development.

We are delighted to have successfully launched our Skills for Life programmes in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

It doesn’t hurt children to talk about death. If they’re worried about it, it’s important to be honest and open to discussing it with them.

In these extremely challenging times, helping children to deal with change and uncertainty has never been more important.

This Young Carers Awareness Day (an annual event, led by Carers Trust) we are celebrating the fantastic work Sutton Young Carers Service are doing to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Young Carers through Passport, one of our Skills for Life programmes.

The Education Endowment Foundation have released a new guidance document which focuses on how primary schools can evaluate & develop a curriculum which supports all children’s social & emotional skills.

Charlotte Loveday in is a HLTA in Lincolnshire. She’s found lots of ways to make her Zippy’s Friends sessions a special part of the school day.

This was not the first time that the Prosecutor’s Office in Petrozavodsk in Karelia (north-west Russia) had tried to stop Zippy’s Friends in schools.

From September 2019, our new Skills for Life programme, Passport will be available to UK schools.

Partnership for Children has successfully delivered mental health promotion programmes in schools for more than two decades.

Since April 2017, Wesleyan have raised an incredible £100,000 to support our work promoting the mental health and emotional well-being of children in schools across the UK. 

We are delighted to be offering our Skills for Life mental health promotion programmes free of charge to primary schools across Dumfries and Galloway.

Here at Oldham Council, we are passionate about embedding The Whole School Approach to Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing.

From September 2020 Relationship and Health Education will be compulsory in Primary Schools in England.

Zippy’s Friends has been running in Slovakia since 2013, with the programme currently in its sixth school year.

Eight trainers from around the UK gathered in Birmingham to share best practice and hear about programme developments.

Partnership for Children is pleased to be supporting Place2Be’s Children’s Mental HealthWeek 2019 (4-10 February). 

The incredible contribution our partner Vaiko Labui makes to the lives of Lithuanian children was recently recognised by the Prime Minister of Lithuania!

Zippy’s Friends has been introduced into Korea by the Mental Health Welfare Centre in Gwangju, in the south of the country. Caroline Egar visits a lively school in Korea.

In August 2018 our Programme Director Caroline went out to Palestine to visit the NGO Engage, our newest partner.

Steph Reed from ASDTeacher.com shares her top tips for communicating clearly with a child with autism and why it’s crucial to do so.