Critical time to respond to rising mental health needs of children and young people News Published 1 Jun 2020 Read our letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson
Access to schools counselling vital for bereaved children News Published 19 Apr 2017 Prince Harry’s experience has shown that counselling changes lives and access to the right therapeutic support, at the right time, can have a positive and lasting effect.
School-based counselling for all children and young people News Published 16 May 2017 General Election 2017: This week will likely see the launch of the main party manifestoes. One of BACP’s asks over consecutive elections has been around school counselling.
New data shows seven in 10 therapists working with children saw an increase in stress over past year News Published 30 Oct 2023 New research shows increase in children's stress
Cut adrift on a sea of uncertainty, the peculiar position of our year 11 and year 13 children News Published 27 Mar 2020 Jane Darougar, executive member of our Universities and Colleges division and a sixth form college counsellor, looks at the experiences of school leavers
New report into information sharing and student suicide News Published 27 Apr 2022 Our Children, Young People and Families Lead Jo Holmes welcomes "student-centred" recommendations
Importance of school counselling highlighted in two reports News Published 17 Dec 2021 Reports call for increased investment in children and young people’s mental health
New Children’s Commissioner 'keeping school counselling agenda alive' News Published 10 Mar 2021 We agree with Dame Rachel de Souza that school children should have access to a counsellor
Children’s Mental Health Week: “Understanding emotions can be really life-changing” News Published 7 Feb 2022 Watch our member Tracey Peters talk about how counselling helps children. BACP vlogs
How anxiety about starting a new school shows itself in different ways in the classroom News Published 6 Sep 2019 Our member Rachel Vora shares her thoughts, as children return to school after the summer