Schools are struggling to train staff and foster a collective e-safety culture, according to a recent assessment report. How can they ensure that policy and practice are inspection-ready? Attendees at last week’s Bett exhibition were invited to a half-hour seminar on ‘Inspecting Keeping Children...

In January, the government pledged to provide training and support for mental health services. Is there renewed hope that funding woes will at last be addressed? ' An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.' (Benjamin Franklin) In January the government announced that mental health reforms...

The president-elect is a poor role model for young people. But to address the causes of bullying, we must go deeper. Notorious for his inflammatory remarks, is Donald Trump the bully-in-chief? Photo credit: Gage Skidmore The timing couldn't have been better. A US election you could mistake for...

With Tuesday's one-day conference still fresh in my mind, here is some of the guidance our speakers had to offer for delivering effective, age-appropriate SRE. Our Relationships and Sex Education conference on Tuesday was (as event chair Jane Lees put it) a day of ‘little steps’ and ‘giant leaps’...