Mainstream and Special Schools' Use of Well-Being Programs: A Regional Survey

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eleven
  In Roundtable Session: Social and Emotional Learning Implementation Across Varied School Settings (Table 16)

Abstract

The incorporation of mental well-being provision into school curricula is increasingly the focus of government policy in the UK and internationally. However, it is not clear what well-being programmes schools provide to pupils, and how these programmes are delivered. The current study was an online survey to assess the use of universal well-being programmes in primary schools in North Wales. One-hundred and fifty-one schools in North Wales responded to the survey. The mean number of universal well-being programmes utilised by schools was 4.59, and nine of the ten most frequently used programmes had little or no associated evidence base. Implications for future practice are discussed, including the need to support schools to identify and implement evidence-based mental well-being provision.

Authors

• Atiyya Nisar, University of Warwick
  Presenting Author

• Richard Watkins
  Non-Presenting Author

• Richard Hastings
  Non-Presenting Author