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We know what works when it comes to supporting pupils’ mental health. And it’s not the use of peer-mentoring as a cheap fix

We tell girls that they can be whatever they want to be, yet heap praise upon them for the entirely luck-based endeavours of getting married and having babies, says the government’s former mental-health champion

The government knows mental illness is affecting ever-greater numbers of the public but isn’t prepared to acknowledge its policies are directly responsible, says the government’s former mental-health champion

It’s time schools were given something tangible and useful to allow them to realistically provide what is being asked of them, writes for the former DfE mental health tsar

Think you knew the Girl Guides? Think again, writes for the former DfE mental health tsar

The DfE’s former mental health champion worries that when ministers say they’re focusing on the wellbeing of young people, what they mean is they’re going to get schools to do it