TY  - GEN
PB  - Department for Education
Y1  - 2025/02//
A1  - Deighton, Jessica
A1  - Thompson, Abigail
A1  - Humphrey, Neil
A1  - Thornton, Emma
A1  - Knowles, Christopher
A1  - Patalay, Praveetha
A1  - Zhang, Kyann
A1  - Evans-Lacko, Sarah
A1  - Hayes, Daniel
A1  - March, Anna
A1  - Mansfield, Rosie
A1  - Santos, Joao
A1  - Deniz, Emre
A1  - Stallard, Paul
A1  - Ashworth, Emma
A1  - Moltrecht, Bettina
A1  - Nisbet, Kirsty
A1  - Stapley, Emily
A1  - Mason, Carla
A1  - Stepanous, Jessica
A1  - Rasmus Boehnke, Jan
CY  - London, UK
N2  - Funded by the Department for Education, Education for Wellbeing was one of England's
largest research programmes for school-based mental health interventions. The aim of
the programme was to evaluate pioneering ways of supporting the mental wellbeing of
pupils.
The programme was split into two trials: AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental
Health Literacy: Research in Education), tested in secondary school settings, and
INSPIRE (Interventions in Schools for Promoting Wellbeing: Research in Education),
tested in both primary and secondary school settings.
This briefing focuses on the results for the INSPIRE trial which explored three initiatives
either based around techniques to support mental wellbeing, or approaches to support
and encourage help-seeking and allied strategies. These initiatives were delivered in
years 4 and 5 in primary schools and 7 and 8 in secondary schools. These approaches
were developed specifically for the study and had not been trialled previously. These
were: Mindfulness-Based Exercises; Relaxation Techniques and Strategies for Safety
and Wellbeing (an 8-lesson mental health literacy programme). Specifically the trial explored the impact of these interventions in the short and longer term on children and
young people?s self-reported emotional difficulties and intentions to seek help in future if
experiencing mental health problems (intended help-seeking). The trial was conducted
with 20,489 pupils across 213 schools.
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AV  - public
ID  - discovery10205397
N1  - Copyright © Department for Education copyright 2025.
This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0,
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nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.
TI  - Effectiveness of school mental health
and wellbeing promotion: Universal approaches in English
primary and secondary schools
UR  - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67a34dd7b74b3d9dfe36ca7e/Effectiveness_of_school_mental_health_and_wellbeing_promotion.pdf
ER  -