Author: Suzanne O’Connell The Green Paper is a consultation document asking people for their views about how mental health support for children and young people might be improved.

Author: Martin Hodgson The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has stated that it has received hundreds of comments from the public in response to its announcement in November to review its Experts by Experience programme.

Author: Suzanne O’Connell As concerns about mental health in schools continue, the government has promised a green paper to look more closely at the issues.

Author: Suzanne O’Connell The children’s commissioner for England has added her voice to concerns about the misuse of exclusion, particularly informal exclusion. Anne Longfield told the education select committee about schools that are encouraging children with behaviour difficulties to leave the school before they are formally excluded.

Author: Suzanne O’Connell The DfE has published The Wellbeing of Secondary School Pupils with Special Educational Needs: Research Report, written by Matt Barnes and Eric Harrison. It focuses on the wellbeing of children with SEN at secondary schools and uses a happiness rating scale and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to arrive at its conclusions.