In this blog, we’re exploring the when, what, who, why and how for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. We’re also highlighting our new assembly that is ready to present for no cost to your school.
Read on to find out:
- When is Children’s Mental Health Week 2025?
- What is the theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025?
- Who is organising Children’s Mental Health Week 2025?
- Why is Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 important?
- How to gain free access to our Know Yourself, Grow Yourself assembly
- More resources for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025
Children’s Mental Health Week runs from 3rd – 9th February 2025
From 3rd to 9th February 2025, schools, teachers, parents and carers across the UK will rally together to raise awareness for Children’s Mental Health Week.
Who runs it and what is the theme for 2025?
Organised by Place2B, this year’s theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ centres around building self-awareness in children to combat mental ill health.
Why is it important to raise awareness?
According to The Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) in England 2023 report, published by NHS England, one in five (20.3%) eight to 16-year-olds had a probable mental disorder in 2023.
After a sharp rise in rates of probable mental disorders in pupils and students between 2017 – 2020, the figures for all year groups from 2022 – 2023 stabilised. Despite this encouraging plateau, continued support for mental health awareness in and outside of schools remains necessary to safeguard the future wellbeing of our children and communities.
Which Children’s Mental Health Week resources are free to access?
We recently invited children into the 1decision studio to film content for a brand-new assembly to tie-in with this years’ theme. We want to help schools engage and educate, which is why this specially created assembly focuses on understanding who we are and how to build self-awareness.
More Resources for Children’s Mental Health Week
Place2Be have joined with Walt Disney’s Inside Out 2 to highlight the importance of developing self-awareness from a young age. Schools, teachers, parents and carers can support Children’s Mental Health Week by downloading resources and sparking important conversations, which hope to encourage pupils to regularly reflect on their own wellbeing.
Join the Conversation
We’d love to hear about your involvement and ideas for raising awareness for this important week. Feel free to share your stories and tag us on social media, using the hashtags below.
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #CMHW2025 #KnowYourselfGrowYourself #MentalHealthMatters
Support the Lessons4Life Campaign
Have you heard of the Lessons4Life campaign? Our partners want to empower children by evaluating, educating and elevating personal development in primary schools. If you agree that personal development deserves more time in the curriculum,
