Research evidence is clear about both the negative impact that poor mental health has on children’s learning and the positive contribution that a well-coordinated whole school approach can make.
One well-conducted review in the US summarised research on 207 social and emotional interventions and suggested that schools with effective wellbeing programmes showed an 11 per cent improvement in achievement tests, a 25 per cent improvement in social and emotional skills, and a 10 per cent decrease in classroom misbehaviour, anxiety and depression (Durlak et al, 2011).
In this context, Ofsted recently launched the new Education Inspection Framework (2019). Reducing the focus on exam performance, and the separation of “behaviours and attitudes” and “personal development” has been broadly welcomed as something that should help to improve mental health and value the contribution of all children.
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