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Sports stars back project to help Greater Manchester kids stay mentally healthy
One in ten children experience a mental health difficulty and now Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the body overseeing the devolution of the area’s health and social care budget is launching a rapid schools pilot, with the help of world-class athletes, to support the emotional wellbeing of pupils. Over 30 schools across Greater Manchester will
be the first to benefit from specialist support for both pupils and teachers. Athletes such as world champion Thai boxer Rachael Mackenzie and former England hockey star Charlotte Hartley will work with pupils across primary and secondary schools together with special educational needs schools and pupil referral units. Students will be supported to build their confidence and reach their full potential; coached in key life skills such as growing their self-esteem, learning creative thinking skills and coping strategies for challenges. Each school will have a lead for mental health
and they will be trained to understand and spot the signs of mental health issues in children and young people such as anxiety and stress. Teachers will be supported to work more effectively with children and young people experiencing mental health problems. In addition, they will have support and consultation directly with a specialist mental health team who will provide advice, information and support schools to access appropriate services if needed, in a timely way. The programme is a new collaboration
between Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the Alliance for Learning Teaching School (part of Bright Futures Educational Trust), the Youth Sport Trust, 42nd Street and Place2Be. Schools from across Greater Manchester will be involved in the pilot that will launch over the next couple of months. The vision is that the pilot will inform a Greater Manchester programme for all schools and colleges to access and benefit from.
This schools pilot is part of a major £134m
four-year action plan to help to transform mental health in Greater Manchester, announced in July by Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. The overall investment programme – the
biggest and most ambitious of its kind in the country – aims not only to put mental health on an equal footing with physical health, but to start to deliver the area’s vision of making sure that no child who needs mental health support will be turned away.
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Running initiative set to tackle inactivity in children
its global reach, delivering free running events across nine countries this year. Children’s health has been hitting UK headlines recently, with Public
Health England suggesting 22.6 percent of children aged 4-5 and 34.3 percent of children aged 10-11 are overweight or obese. GO Run For Fun wants to challenge these statistics by introducing
running as a fun, free activity, where children can enjoy themselves and achieve something, all while taking part in physical exercise. The organisation will also provide a Health & Wellbeing Programme alongside each UK event, to educate young children about the importance of diet and regular exercise. The first UK running event is planned for April 24 in Humber and 24
local schools are set to participate, with many more on the waiting list.
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Children’s running organisation GO Run For Fun has announced ambitious plans to get children aged between five and 10 more active this year by participating in its free events across the UK. The organisation, which is run in partnership with the Great Run series,
aims to get a total of 55,000 children running by the end of the 2018. Since starting in 2013, GO Run For Fun has already welcomed over
200,000 young runners across its events in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Mexico and the USA. As well as aiming to deliver 20 mass running events across the UK, GO
Run For Fun has plans to introduce a full Health & Wellbeing Programme to support the initiative. The organisation is also continuing to focus on
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