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Universal resilience: could it be the answer?

Lucinda Powell summarises a systematic review of universal resilience-focused interventions targeting child and adolescent mental health in the school setting. The post Universal resilience: could it...

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Oral health status: Does it have an impact of school attendance and performance?

This review of the influence of oral health on school performance and school attendance included 18 observational studies and suggests a significant relationship between poor dental health and scchool...

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Mental health stigma in schools: helping young people access support

Lucinda Powell considers a recent systematic review of qualitative evidence on stigma related to targeted school-based mental health interventions. The review provides some interesting findings and...

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Youth mental health research priorities: Right People, Right Questions...

Pooky Knightsmith summarises and discusses a brand new report from the McPin Foundation, which presents research priorities for children and young people’s mental health. The post Youth mental health...

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Evidence-based school-based mental health programmes; the extent of their...

Tamsin Ford considers a literature review of the scope, scale, and dose of the world's largest school-based mental health programmes, which suggests that evidence-based programmes have reached millions...

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Poor school attendance and anxiety: what’s the link?

Lucinda Powell summarises a recent systematic review about the association between anxiety and poor attendance at school, which suggests links between anxiety and unexcused absences/truancy, and school...

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Implementing research evidence in schools: senior leaders and teachers –...

It's Spring! Pooky Knightsmith coaxes the Education Elf out of hibernation with a new blog about the recent Education Endowment Foundation report: Putting evidence to work - a school’s guide to...

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Who gets bullied? Using genetic information to identify individual...

Lucy Bowes explores a multi-polygenic score approach to identifying individual vulnerabilities associated with the risk of bullying, which suggests that depression, ADHD, risk taking, BMI and...

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Lesson observations have no impact on Maths or English GCSE scores

Pooky Knightsmith looks at the Education Endowment Foundation report on Teacher Observation, which concludes that structured lesson observation programmes have no benefits above existing programmes of...

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School based obesity prevention for 6 and 7 year olds

Alison Tonkin writes her debut elf blog on the WAVES study: a cluster randomised controlled trial looking at the effectiveness of a childhood obesity prevention programme delivered through schools,...

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