Anxiety is the top mental health concern for children

Childline has revealed that almost 1 in 4 children who undergo counselling sessions for mental health are struggling with anxiety. The charity helpline delivered over 6,600 counselling sessions related to anxiety in the 6 months between April and October 2024 (the first half of 2024-25). This represented 24% of all counselling sessions the helpline...

Children’s Mental Health Week 2025: self-awareness builds resilience

It’s Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 in the UK (3rd-9th February), and this year’s theme is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. The leading children’s mental health charity has partnered with Here4You, supported by the Walt Disney Company and the characters of Inside Out 2, for this year’s awareness campaign. Here4You supports young people’s mental...

Children’s Mental Health Week: give children a voice

It’s Children’s Mental Health Week in the UK (5th-11th February 2024) and the theme for this year is ‘My Voice Matters’, as new data shows young people face barriers when seeking mental health support. Children’s Mental Health Week was founded in 2015 by the charity Place2Be. Now in its tenth year, the national awareness...

Let’s Connect for Children’s Mental Health Week

This week (6th-12th February 2023) is Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme for this year is Let’s Connect, as data suggests more than two-thirds of children experiencing mental health problems feel socially anxious. The annual awareness week is run by children’s mental health charity, Place2Be, and was first launched in 2015 to help...