This section of our website should provide lots of useful information to you. If there is more information or support you require on any aspect of looking after your own emotional wellbeing or mental health, or that of someone you know, please do not hesitate to contact us at school.
Common Mental Health Disorders
Below you will find links to details of some of the most common mental health disorders, associated signs and symptoms and advice on where to go next.
Depression https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/depression/useful-contacts/
Anxiety & Panic Attacks https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/anxiety-and-panic-attacks/about-anxiety/
Eating Disorders https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/about-eating-disorders/types/
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/about-ocd/
Post-natal Depression https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/postnatal-depression-and-perinatal-mental-health/
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/about-ptsd/
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/stress/about-stress
Useful websites
Prevent – Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism.
https://www.gov.uk/report-terrorism
Take It Down – A free service that can help young people remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of them when they were under 18 years old.
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/
Report Remove – Created to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/professionals/guidance/report-remove3/
Inclusive Digital Safety Hub – So you got naked online (SEND version), a guide for children and young people. This resource helps and advises young people who may find themselves in a situation where they (or a friend) have put a sexting image or video online and have lost control over that content and who it’s being shared with.
https://www.internetmatters.org/inclusive-digital-safety/so-you-got-naked-online-guide-for-young-people/
Local contacts
CAMHS – (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) – https://www.sunderlandcommunitycamhs.nhs.uk/, Tel: 0191 283 1656
Childline – https://www.childline.org.uk/, Tel: 0800 1111
Child Bereavement UK – https://www.childbereavementuk.org, Tel : 0800 02 888 40
Children’s Occupational Therapy Services in Sunderland – Tel: 0191 569 9123
Change Grow Live – https://www.changegrowlive.org/
Early Help Sunderland – https://www.togetherforchildren.org.uk/early-help, Tel: 0191 561 4084
Forget me not bereavement service – https://www.forgetmenotchild.co.uk/help-for-families/how-we-help/our-services/sudden-child-bereavement
Growing Healthy Sunderland – https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/services/childrens-services/growing-healthy-sunderland/, Tel: 03000 031552.
Kooth – https://www.kooth.com/
Talk to Frank ( drugs and solvent/volatile substance misuse) – https://www.talktofrank.com/, Tel: 0300 123 6600
MIND (Washington) – https://washingtonmind.org.uk/
Please click the following link to view the latest ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) guidance from the Department for Education.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025
‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ is also available in other languages here: https://national.lgfl.net/digisafe/kcsietranslate
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