#LPC24👇TOMORROW 1:30pm👇 🧠How can education policy support children's wellbeing and mental health? 🗣️The panel: Schools Minister Catherine McKinnell MP @Jess4Lowestoff MP Lade Smith CBE Dr Dr Charlotte Bagnall & SMF's Aveek Bhattacharya Kindly sponsored by Policy@Manchester

#LPC24 Starting now… Learning to live well: how can education policy support children’s wellbeing and mental health? Speakers include: Lade Smith CBE Dr Charlotte Bagnall @jess4lowestoft Catherine McKinnell MP Kindly supported by Policy@Manchester

Very interesting discussion today at the Labour conference panel discussion on how we can best support children’s emotional wellbeing through early intervention during critical periods, such as primary-secondary school transitions. Timely monitoring using P-S WELLS is key!

👇#CPC24 TOMORROW @ 11am👇 Learning to live well: how can education policy support children's wellbeing and mental health? 🗣️Shadow Education Secretary Damian Hinds, Dame Rachel de Souza, Lade Smith CBE, Dr Dr Charlotte Bagnall and SMF's Aveek Bhattacharya Kindly sponsored by Policy@Manchester

📣STARTING NOW - Learning to live well: how can education policy support children’s wellbeing and mental health? 🗣️Damian Hinds, Dame Rachel de Souza, Lade Smith CBE, Dr Dr Charlotte Bagnall and SMF’s Aveek Bhattacharya 📺WATCH: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqihu6… + follow the live thread 🧵

First up, we heard from Dr Dr Charlotte Bagnall, Lecturer in the Psychology of Education at The University of Manchester. She notes that the transition from primary to secondary is associated with declines in wellbeing among children, and is the subject of Charlotte’s research.

Dr Charlotte Bagnall Dr Bagnall explains that better monitoring during the transition will help understand who is at risk of developing mental illnesses, and provide timely support. She emphasised thar support needs to be both universal and targeted, to prevent major impacts on children’s learning.

🟡How can education policy support children’s wellbeing and mental health? Feat. Munira Wilson 🇺🇦, Caroline Voaden MP, Dr Charlotte Bagnall, Miranda Green, Lade Smith CBE and Aveek Bhattacharya. Kindly supported by Policy@Manchester. ▶️youtube.com/live/rdknOxg7d…

Today I ran the Chicago Marathon 🇺🇸 in memory of my brave, strong and loving grandad, our hero 🖤

Following placing as the 1st female Elf at the Mental Health “Elf” run yesterday. This morning I was interviewed on BBC Radio Stoke, talking about the importance of mental health literacy. Just another day in the office 🤓 🏃‍♀️

Wishing all of our P-S WELLS partners a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎄🎅 Thank you for your ongoing support, our impactful work wouldn’t be possible without you ☺️

Congratulations Rose Dunnet, Fielding & Dr Charlotte Bagnall Manchester University Excellence in International Transitions Research #TransitionsLibrary Open Research, University of Dundee University of Dundee

I just want to say thank you to all our delegates who attended our P-S WELLS Primary-Secondary School Transitions Strategy Event today, where we brought together experts leading on gold-standard transitions provision across the country for some fascinating and engaging discussion

Thoroughly enjoyed delivering a guest lecture today on Educational Transitions on the new MSc Psychological Science and Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education Programme UCL Institute of Education Students were engaged, enthusiastic and came with lots of questions! Thank you for the invite ☺️

Absolutely thrilled that our concept analysis paper, which underpins the conceptualisation, design and operationalisation of P-S WELLS has been published. See here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Not a bad start to the IAYMH Conference in Vancouver🎿

Thoroughly enjoyed presenting our P-S WELLS development, pilot and validation work at #IAYMH2025 Next steps international validation of P-S WELLS and examination of the timing and age of primary-secondary school transitions through comparative research

Another major marathon down! Boston Marathon 🇺🇸🏃‍♀️