Mental Health in Primary Schools

What Supports Children's Wellbeing?

A nest, where “if every area is supported, we’re able to be happy, healthy, and fly from the nest.” 

The Nest has continued to inform major initiatives in policy, practice and research for children's wellbeing. It was extensively updated in 2024 to reflect the latest evidence.

Valued, Loved and Safe

This includes positive family relationships and connections with others, along with personal and community safety. Children and young people who are loved and safe are more likely to:

• Be confident, have a strong sense of self-identity and high self-esteem

• Form secure attachments, have pro-social peer connections and positive adult role models and or mentors in their life

• Be resilient, withstanding life challenges and responding constructively to setbacks and unanticipated events.