May 2025
Wider learning activity:
Mental Health Awareness Week. 21-18 May 2025
NATIONAL TERROR THREAT LEVEL: SUBSTANTIAL (an attack is likely)
Mental health awareness week
Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem.
Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events. We can also get anxious when it comes to things to do with money and not being able to meet our basic needs, like heating our home or buying food. Read More Here.
As part of your wider learning, we are raising awareness of Mental Health and where you can get help. Therefore, if you feel you may need support, please feel free to access this here: Link
Additionally, you may wish to choose from one (or more) of the following options:
-Talk to the Samaritans
-Rethink Mental Illness
-Mind
-Tell someone you trust
-Talk to your GP
-Specialist mental health services
safeguarding
Abuse can happen anywhere and at anytime – we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and keep an eye open for possible signs of abuse.
Types of abuse we need to be vigilant about:
Physical abuse (Assault, hitting, slapping, punching, kicking, hair-pulling, biting, pushing)
Domestic violence or abuse (acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation)
Psychological or emotional abuse (Enforced social isolation – preventing someone accessing services, educational and social opportunities and seeing friends)
Discriminatory abuse (Unequal treatment based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex or sexual orientation (known as ‘protected characteristics’ under the Equality Act 2010))
Organisational or institutional abuse (Discouraging visits or the involvement of relatives or friends)
Sexual abuse (Rape, attempted rape or sexual assault)
Financial or material abuse (Preventing a person from accessing their own money, benefits or assets)
Modern slavery (Sexual exploitation, such as escort work, prostitution and pornography)
Neglect or acts of omission (Failure to provide or allow access to food, shelter, clothing, heating, stimulation and activity, personal or medical care)
Self-neglect (Lack of self-care to an extent that it threatens personal health and safety)
Please spend some time visiting this website to review, in more detail, signs of abuse.
https://www.scie.org.uk/safeguarding/adults/introduction/types-and-indicators-of-abuse
for further support
Concerned about a child: Link
Your Mental Health Task:
For your task, we ask that you help identify local helplines/organisations and sources of mental health support within your local area. This could be a local MIND/Samaritans office/helpline or some way to contact a local organisation that can provide support/information for those who may need it.
Please try and provide 3 examples, which should include the organisation name, contact details (telephone/email information) and what it is they focus on/can support with.
Please have this information at hand in time for your next visit/contact with your coach/tutor.
Safeguarding Task:
1 – Are you aware of the B-Skill Safeguarding Team? Do you know who is present on this team? Spend some time identifying members of this team and understand why they are there to help.
2 – Carry out some quick research and identify a safeguarding issue that made its way into the news – preferrably local to you. Review the information (what the issue was, the circumstances, outcome etc) then carry out a discussion with your coach/tutor. The focus of the exercise is to understand and identify how the abuse was discovered/revealed.