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Hate Crime Awareness week October 2018
Thursday 19th July 2018Hate Crime Awareness week is from 13-20th October 2018...
Draft statutory guidance on RSE and health education
Wednesday 18th July 2018Draft guidance is published today to make sure education prepares young people for life in the modern world...
Train Like a Jedi with Change4Life
Wednesday 4th July 2018Are your kids ready to Train Like A Jedi this Summer? Calling all friends of the Resistance! Public Health England (PHE) and Disney UK have launched a brand new national Change4Life programme – Train Like A Jedi – to help kids get active and inspire a new generation of Resistance recruits...
Staff wellbeing survey and guidance
Tuesday 3rd July 2018Wiltshire schools can use this survey and guidance to enhance their wellbeing provision...
The child obesity plan and schools
Sunday 1st July 2018During the last week Chapter 2 of the Childhood Obesity Plan has been published, which can be read here...
Wiltshire schools invited to help year 9 girls to be more physically active
Tuesday 19th June 2018Our colleagues at the University of Bristol are looking for Wiltshire schools to take part in an exciting new project that is looking at helping Year 9 girls to be more physically active...
CWMT Wellbeing Challenge to win books for your school
Thursday 14th June 2018The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust Wellbeing Challenge 2018 is now open for registration...
Make Your Mark- the UK's largest youth consultation
Friday 8th June 2018During 2017 over 950,000 pupils took part in a national ballot, Make your Mark...
Be Internet Citizens - Free training in Exeter
Friday 1st June 2018This may be of particular interest to secondary school teaching staff who specialise in PSHE, SMSC, Safeguarding, ICT, English, History, Politics and RE...
New Funding for School Breakfast Clubs in England
Wednesday 30th May 2018The UK Government has announced a boost to breakfast provision in schools that will be funded through the soft drinks industry levy...
South West Healthy Schools Conference
Wednesday 25th April 2018South West Healthy Schools Conference This free conference will provide school leaders, governors and teachers, particularly those responsible for PSHE, RSE, safeguarding, mental health and promoting health and wellbeing, with up to date information about new government policy including the Mental Health Green Paper and statutory Relationship and Sex Education...
New Virgin Care referral form consultation
Tuesday 17th April 2018Virgin Care are inviting partner agencies to comment on a new referral form for their service...
Wiltshire's Big Pledge - Beat the Clock Challenge
Wednesday 4th April 2018This year schools will be undertaking a timed challenge whereby you will complete a set number of minutes in order to collect a sport in the Commonwealth Games, which is just about to start...
Sun Ready Photo Challenge and lesson plans
Tuesday 3rd April 2018UK primary schools to win £5,000 in school trips with Boots Soltan The Soltan Sun Ready Schools programme from Boots is offering primary schools the chance to win £5,000 for school trips, by taking part in the Sun Ready Photo Challenge...
Healthy Eating Week 2018 registration now open
Monday 2nd April 2018Registration for BNF Healthy Eating week (11-15 June 2018) is now open More campaign dates and related links can be found on the Health Events Calendar Catch up with more recent news stories here
Wiltshire Healthy Lifestyles report published today
Thursday 29th March 2018To better understand Wiltshire children and young people’s experiences of life, both inside and outside school we have commissioned a Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey which was delivered for the first time in 2015 and again in 2017...
HomeRun offered to all Wiltshire schools
Wednesday 28th March 2018Wiltshire Council have been piloting the smartphone app HomeRun with seven Wiltshire schools located in air quality management areas to reduce traffic and parking issues associated with the school drop-off and pick-up...
Local support for young carers from Carer Support Wiltshire
Tuesday 27th March 2018The current Wiltshire Healthy Schools criteria ask schools to provide evidence of how they are meeting the needs of young carers, including having in place a young carers policy...
Promoting Positive Lunchtimes and Better Behaviour
Thursday 15th March 2018Priestley Primary School, Calne are hosting two sessions led by Jenny Mosely: Promoting Better Behaviour for Learning and Respectful Relationships Thursday 7th June 2018...
New gambling education materials (secondary)
Thursday 15th March 2018Despite more opportunities than ever for young people to gamble, particularly online, tools to help prevent gambling harms are not currently being provided in schools...
DfE Education for Wellbeing research programme
Tuesday 13th March 2018The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is looking for primary and secondary schools to take part in their 2018 - 2020 Education for Wellbeing research programme to implement and evaluate a range of mental health interventions for school pupils in years 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9...
betty for schools - period education
Friday 9th March 2018half a million pupils reached in first year of period education betty for schools, the period education programme, is celebrating its first birthday...
Wiltshire Community Safety survey report published
Thursday 8th March 2018To better understand Wiltshire children and young people’s experiences of life, both inside and outside school we have commissioned a Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey which was delivered for the first time in 2015 and again in 2017...
Childnet annual film competition (ages 7-18)
Wednesday 7th March 2018The Childnet Film Competition 2018 has launched! Young people aged 7-18 are invited to create short films to inspire their peers to 'Connect with Respect'...
Wiltshire report on Risky Behaviours now published
Friday 23rd February 2018To better understand Wiltshire children and young people’s experiences of life, both inside and outside school we have commissioned a Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey which was delivered for the first time in 2015 and again in 2017...
National news archive
Rise in type 2 diabetes in young people in England and Wales
Saturday 18th August 2018Child health experts say the rise is "alarming" and more should be done to reduce obesity...
Woman killed and three injured in Anglesey crash
Saturday 18th August 2018She died at the scene while a man was seriously injured and another woman and child had minor injuries...
NYU offers free tuition for all its medical students
Friday 17th August 2018The New York medical school will fund all students, due to fears of graduates' "overwhelming" debt...
Body scanners and sniffer dogs to target prison drugs
Friday 17th August 2018Funding aims to boost security and conditions at prisons in England with the most "acute problems"...
Prisons minister Rory Stewart: I'll resign if drugs and violence don't go down
Friday 17th August 2018Rory Stewart gives himself a year to reduce the level of drugs and violence in England's prisons...
Body found in search for girl missing in Western Isles
Friday 17th August 2018Seventeen-year-old Hannah Mackenzie was last seen outside her school in Stornoway on Thursday afternoon...
News story: Next generation of young people gaining the skills Britain needs
Thursday 16th August 2018Read full story. Taken from the Announcements on GOV...
How housing has divided the young
Wednesday 15th August 2018Rising house prices have divided young people into property "haves" and "have-nots"...
Huddersfield child sex inquiry: Thirty-one people charged
Wednesday 15th August 2018The offences relate to five women when they were children and allegedly took place between 2005 and 2012...
Italy bridge collapse: 'We just ran for our lives'
Wednesday 15th August 2018Nicola and Lisa Henton-Mitchell survived the bridge collapse with their two children in Genoa...
Italy bridge: 'We just ran for our lives'
Wednesday 15th August 2018Nicola and Lisa Henton-Mitchell narrowly escaped the Genoa bridge collapse with their two children...
Alcohol misuse 'biggest health problem in Northern Ireland'
Tuesday 14th August 2018Figures show the number of alcohol-related deaths in Northern Ireland is the highest on record...
Oxford college employed sex abuse monk for 12 years
Tuesday 14th August 2018Fr Bernard Green sexually assaulted a boy in 1995 and was banned from working with young people...
School exclusion of autistic boy unlawful, judge rules
Tuesday 14th August 2018The exclusion of an autistic boy after he hit a teaching assistant with a ruler, punched her and pulled her hair, was 'unlawful'...
Mood Kill: Real life mental health stories inspire new play
Tuesday 14th August 2018A writer's father opens up for the first time after she rewrote her show to encompass his mental health...
Bringing up your baby as a vegan
Tuesday 14th August 2018Laceinne Cooper is raising her child on a plant-based diet...
Debate over Scotland's schools enters new term
Tuesday 14th August 2018As Scotland's children head back to school this week, the debate over education intensifies...
Ex-Celtic coach McCafferty jailed for child sex abuse
Monday 13th August 2018Jim McCafferty worked at Hibernian, Falkirk, and Celtic football clubs more than 20 years ago...
Teenager admits selling drugs to ecstasy death girl
Monday 13th August 2018Zoe Bremner died at a flat in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow after taking two of the pills...
Going plastic-free with kids: Tips to reduce your dependence
Monday 13th August 2018Blogger Mamalina gives five tips on reducing your plastic dependence if you have young children...
Moss Side shooting: Two children among 10 injured
Sunday 12th August 2018The shooting took place in Manchester's Moss Side at a street party after Caribbean Carnival events...
Three charged over Ramsgate fishing boat migrants
Sunday 12th August 2018Two men, a pregnant woman and a child were aboard the boat found drifting off the Kent coast...
WW1 soldiers' farewell notes on Llangollen bridge lost to damp
Sunday 12th August 2018One note, thought to have been written on a bridge by a soldier, talks about his hope of seeing his unborn child...
WW1 soldiers' farewell notes on Llangollen bridge being lost to damp
Sunday 12th August 2018One note, thought to have been written on a bridge by a soldier, talks about his hope of seeing his unborn child...
Jalsa Salana: The youngsters welcoming 38,000 to a religious gathering on a farm
Saturday 11th August 2018The young people who run the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's annual convention...
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