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Steve Mulligan and Jeremy Bacon from BACP's policy team mark Refugee Week and welcome its theme of healing. BACP blogs

In March 2017, a joint survey was launched by the ACP, BACP, BPC and UKCP to capture information from their members who provided therapeutic services in UK health services. The result is the 'Working in the NHS: the state of children's services' report which focuses specifically on those who identified their main workplace setting as a children’s service.

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

We welcome the Government’s plans for 21,000 new mental health posts including an additional 2,900 additional therapists to deliver talking therapies.

In her regular column, Alison Smyth thinks about meeting new supervisees. BACP Children and Young People, December 2016

General Election 2017: We have witnessed some interesting shifts in the national political psyche over the seven weeks of the General Election campaign, including an emerging cross party consensus on the need to tackle the growing mental health challenge.

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'.

General Election 2017: Three children in every classroom will have experienced a mental health problem by the time they’re 16, and thousands will struggle to get the help they need..

"...what if we consider certain behaviours or ways of being as normal to that particular stage of development?" Regular column from ​Alison Smyth. BACP Children and Young People, March 2017