Person-centred experiential therapy is as effective as CBT, research shows News Published 14 May 2021 The results of the study will help us in our campaigning for the provision of wider choice in talking therapies
Coronavirus: Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund News Published 22 May 2020 The fund provides £617m nationally for small businesses outside the scope of existing support grants created in response to Covid-19
Half of teachers say there’s no counsellor at their school to support pupils, survey reveals News Published 17 Apr 2019 BACP responds to research carried out by the National Education Union
“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
Campaign success as counselling scheme to support jurors launched News Published 8 May 2024 We’d backed calls for more specialist mental health support for jurors following difficult cases
NCS mental health programme offers too little, to too few, too late News Published 17 Aug 2017 Theresa May has today announced mental health training as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme.
Widespread calls for Government to fund school-based counselling News Published 15 Oct 2021 “There’s clear and positive evidence that school-based counselling can really make a difference”
Coronavirus: Government announces extra mental health support and funding News Published 30 Mar 2020 Read our response to the announcement from Mental Health Minister Nadine Dorries
Notes from the Chair of research SIG: SCORE and mental health Journals Published 20 May 2020 "...a perceived crisis in student mental health is part of the wider challenge for adequate national (mental) health provision. University and College Counselling, May 2020
Strong support for school counselling during debate in Parliament News Published 10 Nov 2021 We’re pleased to have influenced the House of Commons debate by briefing MPs