Campfire Conversations #006 - Mental health and absenteeism: "Nobody ever asked me what I needed"

Welcome to episode 6 of the Rethinking Education Campfire Conversations. The theme of today’s episode is around supporting children and young people with mental health issues, and with barriers to school attendance more widely. In this episode, we are joined by: Fran Morgan - Founder, Square Peg (https://www.teamsquarepeg.org) Ellie Costello - Director, Square Peg Lydie (Ellie’s daughter) - age 12 Will Carter - a FullBright Scholar and a PhD student at Berkeley, California who recently appeared on This Morning with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby in a piece entitled - ‘Boy Who Overcame Severe Dyslexia Now Studying PhD’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLnUjgM7Pvk&ab_channel=ThisMorning Bea Herbert - A psychologist and the founder of States of Mind, an organisation dedicated to providing young people with the psychological skills, knowledge and self awareness that is required for them to thrive in the world (https://www.statesofmind.org) Lucy Lovett - a college student with an interest in autism and mental health Anna Allen - a Speech & Language Therapist, and the parent of a child who has struggled with school attendance Heidi Mavir - an Autistic Parent to an Autistic Teen. Heidi is also a public speaker, activist, advocate and mental health first aider, with a particular interest in supporting families whose children have barriers to education. (https://www.facebook.com/seNDSupport) Lottie Cooke - young journalist a student and member of Pupil Power Debra Nelson - Football Beyond Borders - an organisation that uses football to change the lives of young people (https://www.footballbeyondborders.org) Campfire Conversations are hosted by Dr James Mannion, the Director of Rethinking Education and the host of the Rethinking Education podcast. To view the video version of this conversation, visit: https://youtu.be/Ql9plUKXFUs To join future live-streamed Campfire Conversations, join the (private) Rethinking Education Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rethinkinged To join the Rethinking Education Mighty Network, visit: https://rethinking-education.mn.co/feed To explore the Rethinking Education podcast, visit https://soundcloud.com/rethinking-ed-podcast - or search for 'Rethinking Education' wherever you get your podcasts :)