Counsellors help raise barriers to learning News Published 15 Feb 2019 A primary school head teacher explains how and why counselling has been so important to pupils
Campaign success as counselling support programme extended News Published 7 Jul 2022 We welcome additional funding for Northern Ireland's Healthy Happy Minds programme
Leading the way Journals Published 29 Feb 2024 Divisional news, including updates from BACP’s CYPF Lead Jo Holmes and BACP CYPF Executive Committee Chair Emma Davies. March 2024
Children’s Commissioner’s report looks at critical issues relating to school counselling News Published 30 Jan 2020 Read our response to Anne Longfield’s third annual children’s mental health briefing
BACP welcomes Children’s Commissioner for England’s call for counsellor in every school News Published 22 Nov 2018 We agree with Anne Longfield that school counsellors should be part of the NHS’s 10-year plan
A counsellor in every school: This is the impact it has made in Wales News Published 25 Nov 2019 Watch our members in Wales talk about how statutory provision of school-based counselling has benefited young people
“Worrying” postcode lottery of children’s mental health treatment revealed in report News Published 10 Apr 2019 BACP responds to the Children’s Commissioner’s report on young people’s mental health services
Working in the NHS: the state of children’s services Research Published 1 Jan 2017 Updated 1 Oct 2019 Report of research conducted by BACP, the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). PDF download.
Teens more likely to feel depressed – and get less sleep than 10 years ago, research suggests News Published 28 Feb 2019 The factors behind mental health problems in young people may be changing, say researchers
Training teachers to spot young people’s mental health issues will only ‘scratch at the surface’ News Published 17 Jun 2019 BACP responds to the Prime Minister’s new mental health plan