BACP to give evidence on Scottish Government's £60 million school counselling programme News Published 4 Feb 2020 Our Children, Young People and Families Lead Jo Holmes to appear before Scottish Parliament's Education Committee
Welsh Government consults on new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy News Published 4 Apr 2024 Members and counselling organisations can help shape future of Welsh mental health and wellbeing services
Policy asks relating to older people's mental health News Published 25 May 2017 General Election 2017: There has been an important shift in attitudes towards mental health. Politicians, celebrities and other prominent figures now talk openly about their experiences with mental health.
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.
BACP's response to the CQC’s report on children and young people's mental health News Published 8 Mar 2018 BACP is part of the Expert Advisory Group for the Care Quality Commission led Children and Young People’s Mental Health Review which today published its 'Review of children and young people's mental health services: Phase two report'.
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
In my view Journals Published 21 Jan 2020 Some thoughts on IAPT from three practitioners. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2020
School counselling, mandatory reporting and Daniel Pelka some thoughts Journals Published 31 Dec 2013 Open article: Peter Jenkins deliberates on the questions of confidential counselling in schools and the proposed ‘Pelka’s Law’ – mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse. Would this have prevented the latest tragic outcome? BACP Children and Young People, December 2013
The rights of the child Journals Published 1 Sep 2020 Open article: Peter Jenkins puts children’s rights firmly back on the agenda and explores what that means for counsellors and psychotherapists working with CYP. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020
From the chair Journals Published 30 Jun 2017 Regular column from Andrew Reeves. Therapy Today, June 2017