{"id":407919,"date":"2026-01-12T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407919\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:26:04","slug":"schools-to-receive-55000-mental-health-trial-in-cherwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407919\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to receive \u00a355,000 mental health trial in Cherwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirty-one schools in the Cherwell district and 215 parents or carers responded to the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It found that pupils in Years 4 and 5 were most likely to be struggling, with stress and anxiety identified as the most common issues by both parents and school staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other concerns included anger, low self-esteem and sleep problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These were the year groups that began school during the Covid-19 pandemic and all of the school staff surveyed said the prevalence of children with mental health concerns and challenges had increased since the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers also highlighted a widespread demand for a blended support offer, combining whole-class emotional wellbeing workshops with one-to-one help, as well as better communication with families about available support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition most staff reported they only partly feel equipped to support pupils&#8217; wellbeing, and many pointed to a need for more training in areas such as emotional regulation and neurodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty-one schools in the Cherwell district and 215 parents or carers responded to the study. It found that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-407919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}