UNICEF UK and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning (PEDAL) have launched a toolkit to promote mental health in the early years.
The resource, Understanding and supporting the mental health in infancy and early childhood, aims to help service leaders, commissioners and policy teams to develop whole-system responses to support the mental health of babies and young children, and to enable them to have the skills they need to be mentally healthy throughout their lives.
It also aims to provide resources, signposting, and conversation guides to support constructive local discussions, decisions, and action about the needs of babies and young children in their area, and what more might be done to respond to these needs.
‘This toolkit captures what it means for babies and young children to be mentally healthy’
