There's still time to sign-up to join us at this ENSEC event to celebrate SEL day. Our Co-CEO @Hannah_PfC will be presenting with Dr Gemma Unwin from @unibirmingham on the Zippy’s Friends for SEND feasibility trial results.
🔗 Register here 👉 https://t.co/7VyPb8ak6S
Looking forward to presenting at The European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC) webinar on ‘Enhancing Social and Emotional Well-Being in Children and Teachers’.
Come and celebrate International Social and Emotional Learning Day with us 🫶 @PfChildren
For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 2025, we're launching 3 free activities we've developed with Prof. Clare Wood & team @NottmTrentUni to support children’s self-efficacy & resilience:
📖 Storytime
🍬 The Sweet Jar
📔 Gratitude Diary
Download 👉 https://t.co/lddTdz2e01
We’re delighted to see this framework launched over the weekend. Social and emotional skills really are the foundation of a happy, healthy life and so often overlooked which is why doing everything we can at @PfChildren to promote SEL through our Skills for Life programmes.
Today, we are delighted to announce the publication of The Shaping Us Framework to help give social and emotional skills the greater priority they deserve, to support The Princess of Wales’ mission of creating a happier, healthier society.
https://t.co/F1PuCNAb6G
#ShapingUs
Why should we be prioritising social and emotional development? Hear what some of our experts friends from across the early childhood sector have to say.
▶️Watch the full film on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/mD2eJeiij3
#ShapingUs
Join @PfChildren & more than 30 other organisations in calling for a national wellbeing measurement programme to address the needs of children and young people across England.
#OurWellbeing
🚀 We teamed up with @NottmTrentUni to develop activities aimed at boosting self-efficacy & resilience in children & young people. Launching during #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek (3rd-9th Feb), these activities for 3-12 year olds build on our SPARK Resilience programme. 🌟
Young carers are missing a month of school every year!
New, major study reveals a lack of support is having devastating impacts on young carers' education and life chances
Find the striking results and the solutions. Read more:
https://t.co/jFliGkr6bv
A useful resource for our Skills for Life Early Years colleagues from @EducEndowFoundn , this sets out five approaches to help children with their thoughts, actions and emotional responses. 👇
📢 We are excited to be able to give free resources & training in our Early Years Development programme to 20 settings in the following areas thanks to funding from @kavlifondet.
Find out more and register your interest 👉 https://t.co/mhqAspgEqm
In a new blog, @EducEndowFoundn presents a helpful summary of the evidence for Supporting Personal, Social & Emotional Development in the early years.
👉 https://t.co/Eaiq7JI3FG
Download our social & emotional development activities for early years
👉https://t.co/vgrR7pfXkL
1 week to go! Join PfC's @JayneCarter20 at this FREE webinar from @AFNCCF where speakers will discuss the importance of self-regulation and movement and share practical suggestions and ideas for early years practitioners.
Find out more & book your place 👉 https://t.co/1utma8S7yw
"The work we had done within Zippy’s Friends had contributed significantly to an increase in his emotional wellbeing."
Kelly at Evergreen School shares her thoughts on the impact of the Zippy's Friends SEND programme.
Read the full case study 👉https://t.co/DPS3QZ7e2f
🎉Today on #YoungCarersActionDay we are excited to launch our Social & Emotional Activities for Young Carers covering the following themes:
➡️ Feelings
➡️ Friendship & Communication
➡️ Self-care & Strengths
➡️ Change & Loss
Download for free 👉https://t.co/xYZr0BrqgQ
@pfchildren's @JayneCarter20 recently visited one of our Lincolnshire Skills for Life schools who have been supporting children's mental health and wellbeing using the Zippy's Friends programme since 2008.
Read more on our blog 👉 https://t.co/CpyOAzB63B
One of my last big projects before maternity leave has now been published 👏 I worked in partnership with the team at @AFNCCF to write this guide full of practical strategies and activities to support the development of young children’s self-regulation so that they can thrive.
We've been working with @AFNCCF to create a guide to promoting young children’s self-regulation skills through play, this includes info about self-regulation; how to develop strategies for promoting it & the importance of adult-led play.
Read more👉 https://t.co/VMNek8gFXH
📢HAVE YOUR SAY Patients, carers and health professionals in child and adolescent mental health can take part in deciding which research should receive funding from Kavli Trust in 2024. Participate by filling out a simple digital survey by Dec 4:
https://t.co/L26qDtxhuD
"If we can create a society which sees the child within every adult – and the adult within every child - we will finally start to change it for the better."
We want to make the link between the skills we develop in early childhood and the core foundations that set us up for life and help us to thrive as adults. To help give social and emotional skills the greater priority they deserve, The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has conducted a first-of-its-kind global listening exercise, involving experts from 21 countries around the world, to catalogue and identify the skills in this area that matter most throughout our lives.
@Earlychildhood has undertaken work to find a common bridge and set of core skills that can apply equally to children and adults, so we can bring people together with a common language and vision to drive action at every level – protecting and strengthening these skills for current and future generations across the whole of society.
Through this exercise we found consensus around a set of skills that we develop and nurture during early childhood, but that continue to be enhanced and refined as we grow into adults. They relate to knowing ourselves, managing our emotions, focusing our thoughts, communicating with others, nurturing our relationships, and exploring the world. These are the skills that lay the foundations for our positive future mental health and resilience throughout our lives.
Healthy development of these core skills is not inevitable – they must be nurtured from our earliest moments of life. The foundations for these skills are laid in early childhood, between pregnancy and the age of five, which is why those earliest years represent such a golden opportunity to make a difference right from the start. But our social and emotional growth continues throughout our lifetime, and change is always possible.
#ShapingUs
Proud to sign this open letter on behalf of @PfChildren along with @_TheFEA members. It’s crucial that @Jeremy_Hunt’s #AutumnStatement commits to giving every child access to a great early years education.