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Stroke Awareness Month: Make May Purple

By Rachel Hopkins, Marketing Officer, Thursday 11 May 2017

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Taking place every year in May, the Stroke Association aims to raise awareness of strokes and the effects felt by those individuals who they afflict, and the impact on friends and families through their ‘Make May Purple’ campaign. They honour this month by encouraging fundraising to continue the research into prevention, and to develop recovery methods to best enable stroke survivors to rebuild their lives. Stroke is the fourth single leading cause of death in the UK and the leading cause of disability. Greater understanding of the symptoms and what the implications are when treatment is not quickly received is vital to ensuring that those affected by stroke have the best possible chance of recovery.

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Raising awareness of mental health

By , Monday 08 May 2017

NCFE is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week, which is in progress across the UK and encourages everyone to talk about this important issue. This year, the Mental Health Foundation asks why so few of us – just 13% – are thriving with good mental health. With the theme of the campaign this year being ‘Surviving or Thriving?’, the Mental Health Foundation is looking at this topic from a new angle. They state: “Good mental health is more than the absence of a mental health problem. Rather than ask why so many people are living with mental health problems, we will seek to uncover why too few of us are thriving with good mental health.”

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Are your pupils surviving or thriving?

By , Monday 08 May 2017

Led by the Mental Health Foundation, the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, currently underway from 8 – 12 May, is aiming to prompt a national conversation about what we can do as communities, schools, families and individuals to move from survive to thrive. They have said that “This year rather than ask why so many people are living with mental health problems, we will seek to uncover why too few of us are thriving with good mental health.”. It’s therefore a good time to look at the status of mental health among young people, and the extent of the role that schools can, or should, play in supporting those that need help.  

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The waiting game

By Esme Winch, Managing Director, Thursday 20 April 2017

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Once again, we’re experiencing a frustrating wait for the update to the Department for Education performance tables, with the possibility that this could be delayed even further thanks to this week’s surprise announcement of a snap general election. We appreciate that the initial performance tables were released very late, and that this has repercussions when setting out options for your pupils­ or planning the curriculum for next year.

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What impact will snap general election have on education reforms?

By Esme Winch, Managing Director, Thursday 20 April 2017

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Earlier this week, Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election on 8 June, with the purdah period beginning this Saturday. The news came as a surprise to many, but how will the election itself and pre-election campaigning impact on our sector and the planned reforms? The first thing to note is that with purdah beginning imminently, there won’t be any new policy announcements until after 8 June.

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