What we do
Barnardo’s Education Community is a UK-wide online mental health and wellbeing programme for staff working in, or alongside, education settings supporting babies, children and young people.
What we do
Barnardo’s Education Community (BEC) provides high-quality online training, CPD and resources for staff in England, N Ireland, Scotland and Wales through our website:
BEC’s offer is designed to achieve two key outcomes:
Promote positive staff wellbeing and whole school/setting wellbeing.
Build the capacity and knowledge of educators to effectively support the mental health and wellbeing needs of babies, children and young people (BCYP).
The BEC Knowledge Hub and Resources section offers a range of trauma-informed tools and materials for staff in schools and other education settings organised into the following themes:
mental health and wellbeing
bereavement
grief
loss and change
trauma
staff wellbeing
Each of our Training Offers are tailored to provide practical tools, evidence-informed approaches and reflective opportunities that help create nurturing, responsive and emotionally healthy educational environments.
Invisible Backpack Package
Self-harm and Suicidal Behaviours in Children and Young People
Emotionally Based School Avoidance
Taking Care of People You Lead
Spaces for Wellbeing
We work with
Staff working in, or alongside, education settings supporting babies, children and young people.
We offer support through:
Offering training to individual practitioners
Creating bespoke packages for whole school or setting teams
Providing FREE access to a wide range of resources:
Blogs
Booklets, Activities and Posters
Wakelets
Podcasts
Videos
We can help with
- We provide high quality and high impact training to support a range of professionals working with children, young people and families. We have a clear focus on listening to the voices of children and young people and are child centered, promoting young people’s well-being, and safeguarding them from harm. Our extensive work and wide range of specialists across the country means we are well placed to understand both needs and challenges and to offer training and consultancy support to others.
- If you are a parent/carer, find out more about Training
- Search for Training services
- No child should be left to deal with poor mental health alone so we provide services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties so they can feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
- If you are a parent/carer, find out more about Mental health
- If you’re a young person, we've got resources to help you with your mental wellbeing
- Search for Mental health services