Kathryn Mills-Webb

Researchers from @beewelluk.bsky.social have quantified how participating in artistic activities can improve young people’s wellbeing: an estimated £7 in benefits from every £1 spent on giving young people access to creativity 👉 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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Great story in @theguardian.com sharing the latest @beewelluk.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social research looking at prevalence & impact of isolation in schools.

More detail in here 👉 tinyurl.com/yffvjp4x

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Ha ha Luna would love that but no one would be allowed to work - only pet her!

#tbt #euspr2025 in Berlin last week.

Great to share my research on how school & neighbourhood can shape young people’s mental health & wellbeing (much as I am not a fan of the academic poster!)

And great to spend time with lovely colleagues @annieobrien.bsky.social @suzannehamilton.bsky.social

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"If we get this right, it will be the most important thing we have done in this Bill - but, at the moment, there is no measurement,” said Lord Gus O’Donnell in yesterday’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill debate.

🔗 www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org
🎥 Watch his speech below 👇

3. A great talk by Fran Azpiarte who used multilevel modelling to investigate attendance trends - really useful for me to hear someone talking about using this method as I'm currently planning a paper using multilevel models

4. Couldn't go to Brighton without a stroll along the seafront

2. Hearing & discussing different perspectives on belonging, wellbeing, hope & optimism, and more...

Lots of food for thought for how to approach these topics in future work...

On the long trek home from #BERA2025 & thought I'd share highlights from the week:

1. Presenting preliminary findings from my review about how the school teens go to & the neighbourhood they live in can influence mental health & wellbeing - bonus, I snuck in references to Harry Potter & Neighbours😊

Great 1st day at #bera2025. Particularly enjoyed listening to Karen Fox and a group of Y7s who shared their co-creation experiences - including renaming some of our ‘boring’ research words.

No more data collection, it’s now ways of discovery!

Our education system is only making mental health worse Recent government interventions are welcome, but we're only papering over the cracks without meaningful school reform

Interesting piece in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on the role of the school environment in students mental health.

Next week I'll be sharing preliminary findings from a review about this at #BERA2025 looking at what we know & where we need more evidence before making changes.

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A square tile with a photograph of a young person wearing a rainbow flag as a cape. It shows two of the key stats from the report: Higher mental health risks, 3x the rate of their non-LGBTQ+ peers. and £15,600 per participant of annual wellbeing benefits from the Free2Talk programme.

LGBTQ+ young people in the UK face a severe, unequal mental health crisis.

Services like Free2Talk offer life-changing, cost-effective help, but they need greater support. 1/7

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Working from home with possibly the neediest pets ever!

What if they were ours? | BPS Aneeza Pervez on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children.

What if they were ours?
@aneezapervez.bsky.social on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children.
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A great few days of training!

Watch out for new presentations and videos from the @beewelluk.bsky.social team putting all these skills into practice 🎥 🎬 🎤

I'm also looking forward to using what I learnt at #BERA2025 @beranews.bsky.social and #EUSPR2025 in September!

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This week, we spent the day in London with @pbe.co.uk, @thefea.bsky.social and @childrenssociety.bsky.social to workshop our next steps on the Our Wellbeing, Our Voice campaign.

Want to get involved? Visit: www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org
#OurWellbeing
📸 See a photo of the team in action below!

The Our Wellbeing, Our Voice coalition has reached 60 members!👏

60 leading organisations - most recently @ascl-uk.bsky.social - have joined our call for national children and young people's wellbeing measurement.

For more information, head to: www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org

#OurWellbeing

It was great to work on this paper using
@beewelluk.bsky.social
data to look at how neighbourhood deprivation influences young people's mental health and wellbeing - full paper is here: www.mdpi.com/3362394 - and this is a great summary below 👇

How Labour can get to grips with the mental health crisis With its schools bill, the government has a chance to finally get the proper measure of kids' wellbeing

"Labour must finally – and properly – measure children’s wellbeing"

Check out the piece by Lord O'Donnell in @schoolsweek.bsky.social, arguing for a children and young people's wellbeing measurement programme👇

schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-must-...

#OurWellbeing

Why are Dutch kids the world’s happiest? A teenager weighs in | CNN Freedom for kids to move through the world on their own may be the key to the Netherlands’ top spot in childhood happiness.

"Many Dutch children enjoy a freedom of movement that most American kids don’t, which might be the key to why Dutch kids are the happiest kids in the world, according to a 2025 UNICEF report," writes Mary Frances Ruskell. | Essay

How Labour can get to grips with the mental health crisis With its schools bill, the government has a chance to finally get the proper measure of kids' wellbeing

"If we want to shift from firefighting crises to offering earlier, more effective support, we need better information to guide schools, inform local services & shape national policy."

Great article in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on measuring young people's wellbeing: schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-must-...

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Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves. The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created £2.8bn in savings and revenues at the scheme’s peak in England, according to the IFS study. Continue reading...

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

Schools could track pupils’ happiness in push to improve wellbeing | #BeeWell “Ministers are being advised to introduce a nationwide programme to assess the wellbeing of children school by school." Today's The Times covers the call for a national wellbeing measurement ...

If you can't access the article (it's behind a paywall), read our summary here: www.linkedin.com/posts/beewel...

Schools could track pupils’ happiness in push to improve wellbeing The proposals are intended to help identify problem areas for children and young people, who are suffering soaring anxiety and depression

'Schools could track pupils’ happiness in push to improve wellbeing'

Thanks to @thetimes.com for highlighting our call for national wellbeing measurement.

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We are so excited to share the latest headline findings from our #BeeWell survey in Greater Manchester! 👉https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/news/beewell-survey-highlights-wellbeing-priorities-and-challenges-for-young-people-in-greater-manchester/

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Looking forward to hearing this great line-up of speakers talking about why we need to measure children and young people's wellbeing and the best ways to go about doing this.

#ourwellbeing

No wifi at home today, so time for some ‘light’ reading with occasional cuddles from Luna and Mercury too - not sure they’re a fan of the story though…😕 🐶🐈‍⬛

Frontiers | Perceptions of teacher-student relationships predict reductions in adolescent distress via increased trait mindfulness

Excited to share this paper on my Masters dissertation - it’s taken a while! Thanks to Alex Hennessey for all your support!

We looked at how teacher student relationships can reduce adolescent distress by fostering mindfulness skills 👇

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