SHRN Local Authority Dashboard
A collaboration between SHRN and Public Health Wales means users can now access Student Health and Wellbeing data at local authority level. The dashboard, created by Public Health Wales analysts, contains data for 32 different topic areas across three waves of the SHRN survey (2017, 2019 and 2021). Additional breakdowns are available by student gender, age, and family affluence.
SHRN Data Dashboard – Public Health Wales (nhs.wales)
Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes
The Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes (WNHSS) aims to facilitate building and sustaining the physical, social-emotional and psychological conditions for health and well-being within schools in Wales through a whole school approach to health and well-being. It does so through affecting change in school environment, policy and practice, guided by national criteria for health promoting schools and in line with the WHO Health Promoting Schools principles. Support via the scheme is offered to all levels in Wales (nursery, primary, secondary, middle and special and independent). Public Health Wales grant fund a network of 22 local schemes (one per local authority area). Each scheme is responsible for supporting the development of health promoting schools within their geographical area.
Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes – Public Health Wales (nhs.wales)
Whole School Approach to Emotional and Mental Well-being: What Works Toolkit
In March 2021 Welsh Government published the Framework on Embedding a Whole School Approach to Mental and Emotional Well-being, with the objective of supporting schools to meet the mental health and well-being needs of their students and staff. One of the ten key requirements and actions documented in this framework was that schools should ensure they only implemented well-being interventions with a ‘sound or innovative and developing evidence base’. The What Works Toolkit aims to provide a summary of the evidence of effectiveness to help schools make informed decisions when choosing interventions.
Further supportive resources such as webinars and research briefs are available to access via the SHRN website.