Latest News for Parents & Carers

Purple Tuesday is an international call to action, focused on changing the customer experience for disabled people. It will involve organisations of all sizes and from all sectors taking decisive, practical actions to meet the needs of disabled customers. You can read about it in more detail here.

Thousands more inactive people are set to benefit from £4 million new funding for Get Out Get Active. The ground-breaking Get Out Get Active (GOGA) programme began in 2016, created to bring disabled and non-disabled people together to be active. It engages the least active communities in fun, inclusive ways.

National Stress Awareness Day provides people with an opportunity to think about our wellbeing and find advice or support on managing stress. The charity Mind has some suggestions for how you can join the conversation about stress.

The government is to invest £35m into speeding up the identification of mental health problems among teenagers. The money is being handed to academics to look at the links between genetics and events in teenagers’ lives to see how their mental health is being affected. The aim is to quickly identify issues such as depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders.

Six out of every 30 children are obese and it’s because they are being “flooded” with junk food, according to Professor Dame Sally Davies. She has suggested a number of measures to tackle the growing crisis, but the one that has sparked the most debate is her proposal to ban snacking on certain public transport. here was a caveat to her proposal:

“Prohibit eating and drinking on urban public transport, except fresh water, breastfeeding and for medical conditions.”