Community members supporting change News Published 21 Nov 2022 Jo Holmes from our Policy team talks about BACP's campaign work with Citizen UK in support of children and young people. BACP staff blogs
Additional funding announced for early support mental health hubs News Published 27 Feb 2024 Government commits to another £3 million for hubs for young people
Fund the Hubs News Published 11 Jul 2022 Jo Holmes from our Policy team, talks about BACP's campaign for vital support for children and young people. BACP staff blogs
Students on course after graduating from new HND in counselling News Published 12 Nov 2018 Unique partnership to improve access to counselling training in Scotland
“Worrying” new figures show more than half of people who self-harm do not access support News Published 5 Jun 2019 Our response to a study which found an increase in the rate of reported self-harm
Why creating a sense of community is key to tackling students’ homesickness News Published 20 Sep 2019 We spoke to our member university counsellor Louise Knowles for Freshers' Week
Childline figures show rise in calls for peer-on-peer sexual abuse News Published 18 Sep 2018 We share Childline’s concerns over figures which show a 29% increase in children and young people seeking help about child-on-child sexual abuse
Celebrating the next step towards a toolkit for school counsellors News Published 25 Oct 2019 We’ve helped the Welsh Government update a publication for counsellors working with young people
Recording online sessions News Published 5 Jan 2021 Our children and young people (CYP) ethics consultant Sarah Watson discusses the dilemma of recording your work
New report shows a quarter of children aren’t getting access to mental health care News Published 15 Sep 2017 BACP is concerned by findings in the Education Policy Institute (EPI) report which shows that over a quarter of children referred to specialist mental health services were not accepted into those services.