Episode 16: (Special Episode) When will we talk about the mental health of our children?

Kindness is the theme for Mental health Awareness week (May 2020) What do we mean by kindness? This question deserves an answer at this time of crisis. We have witnessed some incredible acts of kindness in our communities and in Society as a whole. Surely now is the time to re-evaluate what kindness can give to our own sense of well being , as well as in acts of kindness towards others. It is an essential component of the compassion that will be so essential to our school communities in the process of reconnection and recovery A new report exploring kindness, published by the Mental Health Foundation is timely and will be posted on the Recovery Curriculum website (www.recoverycurriculum.org) to support this special edition episode of the LearningShared podcast that we've recorded for Mental Health Awareness Week (2020). It features a lecture by Barry Carpenter, OBE, CBE (Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University) entitled "When will we talk about the mental health of our children?" The episode is delivered as a lecture with accompanying slides. If you’re listening to the audio-only version, we have a link to a video slideshow on the recovery curriculum website (www.recoverycurriculum.org)