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The government needs to start listening to the concerns of young people at risk of self-harm, says the DfE’s former mental health champion

The DfE’s former mental health champion discusses why we need to teach young people critical thinking to detect false consensus

The DfE’s former mental health champion calls on organisations – including schools – to join Tes and sign her Mental Health Media Charter

New apprenticeship routes into teaching will only make a difference if we stop asking teachers to be social workers, educational psychologists and the rest

The government’s drive to ‘improve standards’ has systematically squashed all the joy out of teaching and school staff members are now enduring unbearable levels of stress, which must impact the environment young people find themselves in, writes mental health expert Natasha Devon

It’s time the truth about the huge expectations on teachers was revealed – the current swathe of anti-teacher feeling in this country needs to end, writes mental health expert Natasha Devon