Enabling educational settings to kickstart their long-term wellbeing strategy
Providing fully funded wellbeing support in schools and educational settings
mdeducational foundation is a charity normalising student psychological fitness and resilience through guidance and early intervention.
We provide a three-year salary-funded commitment to placing dedicated wellbeing professionals within post-16 educational settings across the UK and Ireland.
By funding the placement of Wellbeing Leads into post-16 settings, we’re enabling educational settings to kickstart their long-term wellbeing strategies and putting student wellbeing at the forefront of education.
Our purpose & work
”The support the Wellbeing Lead has given me has helped me approach exams and life stresses much more calmly. I always feel comfortable during a one-to-one session and approaching her for them.
The Wellbeing Lead was able to correctly signpost me to the right support that I needed and was able to help me tackle any difficulties I may have had.
The activities and sessions in the Wellbeing Hub that the Wellbeing Lead organised provides calming activities for the sixth form students as well as a quiet communal space to relax alone or converse with friends.”
– Barney, Year 13 Student & Sixth Form Student President
Why our work is needed
young people in England have a probable mental health disorder in 2022
of UK teachers don’t feel confident helping pupils with their mental health
young people in Northern Ireland experience anxiety and depression
children and young people had been in contact with mental health services by April 2022
children in England have been persistently absent from school
”From my own experience, and as a parent now, I know this can make a huge difference. Our healthcare system works on the premise that young people are “fine”, right up until the point where they have a mental health crisis – and it’s only then that support services step in. We wanted to change that path by offering much earlier intervention and support to try to stop young people from ever getting to that crisis point in the first place.”
– Tarquin Scadding-Hunt, Co-Founder at mdeducational foundation
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