Category: Senior Phase – Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Wellbeing

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CHILD ONLINE SAFETY CAMPAIGN

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CHILD ONLINE SAFETY CAMPAIGN

On Tuesday (8th February 2022) the Scottish Government launched its national Child Online Safety campaign.

The campaign aims to increase awareness of the importance of online safety to parents and carers of children aged 8-11 year olds, and reassure and inform them that the skills they apply offline to help keep their children safe can be used to protect them online too.

The campaign provides practical advice for parents and guardians on how to check and monitor their child’s online activity by speaking regularly about online safety and taking an interest in what they do online; discussing and agreeing boundaries; setting safety measures. The campaign also provides clear signposting for parents and children towards additional support.

The campaign includes Digital TV and radio coverage, social media activity, website advertising, and press coverage. A supporting hub at parentclub.scot/online-safety is packed with practical ideas and advice for parents to feel more confident and informed on the steps they can take to keep their children safer online.

A stakeholder toolkit can be found here – https://www.parentclub.scot/online-safety/partner-resources. It sets out simple ways in which partner organisations can further support the campaign. This includes suggested social media posts, newsletter copy, a parental safety sheet and a parent/child conversation tool.

Scottish Government are asking for your support to help get these important messages to families throughout Scotland by simply downloading the resources relevant to your organisation and sharing them across your communications channels.

Frank Martin and Jenny Stenton have led this work for the Scottish Government and are happy to answer any questions you may have. Contact Jenny at Jennifer.Stenton@gov.scot

Health and Wellbeing Key Events Calendar

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To access resource links to each event, please click on the three dots underneath the book and select ‘download PDF ‘. Once downloaded, the ‘book’ will contain clickable links. Please note that FVWL RIC is not responsible for the content on these external sites. Please be aware that some of the resources are not prepared by the organisations yet so, in using some links you may be taken to 2021 resources for a flavour of what the day is about.

If you don’t wish to download the ‘book’ the links are provided below.

February 2022–

National Heart Month (1-28) https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2015/january/take-10-minutes-to-change-your-life-this-heart-month

Time to Talk Day (3) –https://timetotalkday.co.uk/

World Cancer Day (4)- https://www.worldcancerday.org/

Safer Internet Day (8)- https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2022/educational-resources

Children’s Mental Health Week (7-13)- https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/

Eating Disorder Awareness Week (28 Feb- 6 Mar)- https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-involved/nedawareness

MARCH

Ovarian Cancer Awareness (1-31) –

https://ovarian.org.uk/march-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month/

Prostate Cancer Awareness (1-31) –

https://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved

No Smoking Day (9) https://www.ashscotland.org.uk/what-we-do/campaign/no-smoking-day/

Nutrition and Hydration Week (14-20) –

https://nutritionandhydrationweek.co.uk/

World Sleep Day (18) https://worldsleepday.org/

World Oral Health Day (20) https://www.worldoralhealthday.org/

World Bipolar Day (30) https://www.rethink.org/get-involved/awareness-days-and-events/world-bipolar-day/

APRIL

Stress Awareness Month (1-30) https://www.stress.org.uk/national-stress-awareness-month/

Testicular Cancer Awareness Month (1-30) https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/awareness-months/testicular-cancer-awareness-month/#:~:text=April%20is%20Testicular%20Cancer%20Awareness%20Month.,cure%20all%20forms%20of%20cancer.

World Autism Awareness Day (2) https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/raise-money/world-autism-acceptance-week-2022

World Health Day (7) https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2022/en/

On your feet Britain (28) https://onyourfeetday.com/

MAY

National Walking Month (1-31) https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/national-walking-month

UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (4-9) https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/event/2022-05-03/maternal-mental-health-awareness-week

Mental Health Awareness Week (3-9) https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/news/mental-health-foundation-announces-loneliness-theme-mental-health-awareness-week-2022

Sun Awareness Week (3-9) https://ukpublichealthnetwork.org.uk/events/sun-awareness-week-2022-05-06/

Deaf Awareness Week (3-8) https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/event/2022-05-04/deaf-awareness-week

Global Hand Hygiene Day (5) https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-hand-hygiene-day/2022

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week (9-13) https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/equality-diversity-and-human-rights-week-2021

Global Accessibility Day (19) https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

JUNE

LGBT Pride Month (1-30) https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pride-month/

Bike Week (6-12) https://www.cyclinguk.org/bikeweek

Carers Week (7-12) https://www.carersweek.org/

Men’s Health Week (13-19) https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/mhw

Healthy Eating Week (13-17) https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthy-eating-week/#:~:text=Healthy%20Eating%20Week%202022%20will,Why%20Healthy%20Eating%20Week%3F

Diabetes Awareness Week (14-19) https://ukpublichealthnetwork.org.uk/events/diabetes-week-2022-06-10/

National Smile Month (May 16 -Jun 15) https://www.dentalhealth.org/national-smile-month

National Clean Air Day (17) https://www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/campaigns/clean-air-day

Autistic Pride Day (18)- https://embrace-autism.com/autistic-pride-day/

JULY

Thank You Day (3) https://thankyouday.org.uk/

National Schizophrenia Awareness Day (25) https://www.rethink.org/get-involved/awareness-days-and-events/national-schizophrenia-awareness-day/#:~:text=National%20Schizophrenia%20Awareness%20Day%20on,UK%20and%20millions%20more%20worldwide.

AUGUST

World Breastfeeding Week (1-7) https://waba.org.my/wbw/

Cycle to Work Day (4) https://nationaltoday.com/cycle-work-day/#:~:text=CYCLE%20TO%20WORK%20DAY%20%2D%20August%206%2C%202022%20%2D%20National%20Today

SEPTEMBER

Know Your Numbers Week (6-12) https://www.bloodpressureuk.org/know-your-numbers/know-your-numbers-week/

National Fitness Day (TBC) https://www.nationalfitnessday.com/

World Suicide Prevention Day (10) https://www.rethink.org/get-involved/awareness-days-and-events/world-suicide-prevention-day/

International Day of Sign Language (23) https://www.un.org/en/observances/sign-languages-day

OCTOBER

Stoptober (1–31) https://www.blf.org.uk/take-action/campaign-with-us/stoptober

Breast Cancer Awareness Month (1- 31) https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/node/330411

National Cholesterol Month (1-31) https://ukpublichealthnetwork.org.uk/events/national-cholesterol-month-2022-10-01/

Back Care Awareness week (3-7) https://backcare.org.uk/event/2022-back-care-awareness-week/#:~:text=October%203%20%2D%20October%207

World Mental Health Day (10) https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day

National Work Life Balance Week (10-14) https://workingfamilies.org.uk/nationalworklifeweek/

Coming Out Day (11) https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/why-do-we-need-national-coming-out-day

World Menopause Day (18) https://menomartha.com/health-topic/world-menopause-day-2022/

International Stammering Awareness Day (22) https://www.thereisadayforthat.com/holidays/united-kingdom/international-stuttering-awareness-day

NOVEMBER

Men’s Health (1-30) https://uk.movember.com/mens-health/general

International Stress Awareness Week (1-5) https://isma.org.uk/isma-international-stress-awareness-week

Talk Money Week (9-12) https://maps.org.uk/talk-money-week/

Alcohol Awareness Week ( 11-16) https://alcoholchange.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/alcohol-awareness-week-1

Trans Awareness Week (13-19) https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/happy-trans-awareness-week

Anti-bullying Week (14-18) https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week#:~:text=ABA%20are%20official%20organisers%20of,be%20launched%20in%20May%202022.

Self-Care Week (TBC) https://www.selfcareforum.org/events/self-care-week/

16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence (25 Nov – 10 Dec) https://16daysofaction.co.uk/

DECEMBER

World Aids Day (1) https://www.worldaidsday.org/

National Grief Awareness Week (2-8) https://www.thegoodgrieftrust.org/ngaw/

International Day of People with Disabilities (3) https://idpwd.org/

#PurpleLightUpDay (3) https://www.purplespace.org/purple-light-up/get-involved

Safer Internet Day 2022

Safer Internet Day 8^th February 2022

Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people, and to inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically, and creatively. Safer Internet Day is celebrated in over a hundred countries coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe

The UK Safer Internet Centre co-ordinates Safer Internet Day for the UK on an annual basis. They promote Digital Safety through a themed campaign.

This year the focus of their action centres around ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Safer Internet Day 2022 is on 8th February 2022

Some resources you may like to explore are shared below.

https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2022 U

https://www.saferinternetday.org/en-GB/ U

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/o nline-safety/ U

https://www.netsmartzkids.org/ P

https://www.commonsense.org/education/SEL U

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ U

https://www.webwise.ie/ U

https://projectevolve.co.uk/about/ U

https://safety.google/families/ U

https://www.pacey.org.uk/working-in-childcare/spotlight-on/online-safety E

https://tinyurl.com/y99t6sdz U

Videos-

Detecting Lies Online- https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=KFdUBjtE45Y OP/YS

Staying Safe on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1XeJLop bg OP/YS

What can you trust online?- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXYJMrZL-w P

Online Safety Tips- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrln8nyVBLU OP/YS

CyberSecurity- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtQ21hXJ7k OP/YS

Protective Behaviours – Online safety and learning disabilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzwFsw5Tn0 A

Online Safety & Sexting – Just Send it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7z6lMbL3mw S

For very general guidance, the resources have been categorised in the following way-

E– Early P– Primary Resources OP/YS– Older Primary/Younger Secondary S- Secondary A-Additional Support Needs U– Universal

Refreshed, Rebranded and Refocussed

Central E-Safety Partnership has transformed into WIZE – Digital Wellbeing

The Health and Wellbeing work stream within our RIC has taken on the hosting of online safety resources from the ‘Central E-safety Partnership’ blog and Facebook page, which will soon both close. The Partnership has now been rebranded as ‘WIZE- Digital Wellbeing’ and can be accessed here within our FVWL RIC blog space.

WIZE is made up of representatives of Police Scotland, and Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Councils, as well as Further Education and Higher Education and third-sector organisations serving the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Council areas.

WIZE will continue to help celebrate positive and safe uses of the Internet, mobile and digital technology, to reduce online and e-crime and risk of harm to children, young people, adults, and vulnerable groups in the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian Council areas.

We are currently migrating relevant resources to the WIZE blog area and will also be adding fresh ones, so please check back regularly for up-to-date online safety resources and best practice ideas.

Collaboration

Our RIC is built on a culture of collaboration. We welcome any sharing of resources or best practice with regards to online safety to disseminate across our four local authorities. You are the innovators, so we really want to hear what you have been doing to promote digital wellbeing. Contact us using the forms on the Digital Wellbeing landing page and use our hashtag #FVWLwize in your Tweets to highlight the great work you are doing!

MESP- Senior Phase Other

NHS Forth Valley Self Help Guides

Self help guides covering a range of topics including: self harm, anxiety, stress, sleeping, panic and food for thought.

Mental Health Foundation – Make it Count:

This guide is for teachers to help them create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive with good mental health.

Free podcast from The Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University. The first guest of this special series is Centre Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff. He and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers. They also talk about what we’ve already learned as a result of the coronavirus, and what we hope to continue learning.

Meditation and Sleep Made Simple – Headspace App

An app to help you be: Less stressed. More resilient. Happier. It all starts with just a few minutes a day.

Mindshift App- Anxiety Canada

A free app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety.

Calm App

Meditation techniques to aid with stress and sleep.

Apps to Support Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

This is a collection of apps that are designed to support young people, adults and families with their mental health and well-being. If you click on the image it will open the app site in a new window. Some of these do need a paid subscription to use them while others have been made freely available during the Covid situation.

Clear Fear app
The fear of threat, or anxiety makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free, Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions. The app was developed for teenage mental health charity stem4
by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and uses the evidence-based treatment Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).The app can be personalised and can track progress and notice change. You can download the app, and the guide on using it during Covid-19, on the website below.

MESP- Senior Phase Online Learning

SeeMe: Mental Health – Stigma and Discrimination module
A resource from SeeMeScotland helping young people to understand mental health and have a more positive attitude towards dealing with it.

Transferring the Emotional Load webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGR69hYvfw0&feature=youtu.be

HWB Recovery Plan Webinar (West Lothian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSr41GUOf2g

SAMH module for teachers:

‘We all have mental health: an introduction for teachers’, to provide teachers with an introduction to mental health; equip them with the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond to a pupil who is experiencing a mental health problem; and lead a conversation about positive mental health.

Free Stress Management Course (NHS Fife):

This is an online and modified version of Step on Stress for managing our stress and anxiety during the current COVID-19 pandemic. This online resource has four sessions 1) Introduction and Wellbeing 2) Managing Your Body 3) Managing Unhelpful Behaviours 4) Managing Your Thoughts. To get the maximum benefit of this online course, we would encourage everyone to watch each of the four sessions in the running order (1-4).

Psychosocial First Aid

Key resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of you and your staff members. Includes sections on managing stress, coping and resilience.

Webinars on Teen Sleep during COVID-19

These webinars are a partnership production between the Emerging Minds Network and The Mental Elf and were recorded on 27 May 2020. They were delivered by experts in the field who shared their knowledge and experience and answered questions during the webinars. The aim of the webinars were to share what research says about sleep and mental wellbeing in children and young people and to explore the potential practical implicationsfor families. There are 3 available through the link below, the 3rd one is a combination of the first 2 along with a question and answer session. https://emergingminds.org.uk/podcast-teen-sleep-during-covid-19/

Health and wellbeing video resource – Self-reporting on progress | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot)

This video resource exemplifies young people from early to senior phase self-reporting about their health and wellbeing. They describe and illustrate the skills, knowledge and capabilities they have in relation to health and wellbeing experiences and outcomes which are the responsibility of all.

MESP- Senior Phase Links

OXFAM

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/handle/10546/620557

The second link takes you to theOXFAM Library of digital resources. Access learning and activity resources, aimed at teachers, to bring the issues Oxfam works on to life, both in the classroom and the wider community.

R U OK?

Resources from Australia: For students, learning how to support their peers and talk about how they feel is an important life lesson, so where better to start than in the classroom? These resources for primary, secondary and tertiary educators and institutions will help students everywhere start a conversation.

Red Cross:

These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. They help secondary learners develop empathy with others, learn to help others, develop their resilience and gain many other life skills.

Child Bereavement UK

Support for schools and children to cope with bereavement

Hands On Scotland:

Hands on provides help and practical advice for supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Better Eating Better Learning
Guidance to support schools and all stakeholders to work in partnership to make improvements in school food and food education

Mood Cafe:

A web based source of information and support for young people and their families on a number of health related topics.

Falkirk HWB Blog:

A blog covering all aspects of HWB, maintained by the curriculum support officer for health and wellbeing in the Service and School Improvement Team.

Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87 or https://breathingspace.scot/

FDAMH – Falkirk District Association for Mental Health – Online resources https://www.fdamh.org.uk/find-online-help/

Education Scotland- staff wellbeing wakelet: https://wakelet.com/wake/7ae44302-d330-413c-b1b1-7ba25b786c7b

Clear Your Head has produced tips to help you look after yourself and get through these uncertain times. With ideas about how you can keep moving, create a routine, find things you enjoy and keep connected with friends and family – finding time for any of these will help to clear your head. https://clearyourhead.scot/

EIS HWB resource https://www.eis.org.uk/Member-Support/HWResource

Talking and Listening Skills through HWB during our recovery phase:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/fa/LiteracyStrategy/2020/07/17/talking-and-listening-skills-developing-and-applying-through-hwb-during-our-recovery-phase/

NHS information site on anxiety in children

This resource includes sections on how to spot signs of anxiety and gives tips on how to help. There are useful links to films on building self-esteem in children and to another website that explains relaxation techniques to use with children.

Falkirk Educational Psychology Service

This Blog is intended to provide practitioners working in Falkirk with easy access to materials, links and advice that will assist in their assessment and intervention.

The materials and guidance section provides useful resources and we publish information on how we deliver a service in Falkirk, including our training courses in the service delivery section.

Coping skills for children and young people.

This website provides strategies used by child therapists for calming anxiety, including ideas to calm down, books to read and videos that can help.

Young Scot- Aye Feel

Find information about how to look after your emotional wellbeing, support from organisations around Scotland and tips on how to promote a positive mindset.