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Last month, Place2Be held a conference calling for attention to shift mental health treatment for children and young people to prevention methods.

We urge the Chancellor to make “positive investment in childhood” to build resilience and growth for children so they can thrive from childhood into adulthood, and succeed in the workplace.

Place2Be has been shortlisted in three categories at the Charity IT Leaders Awards 2025.

Place2Be is proud to have collaborated with Save the Children UK in the creation of a good practice guide.

Read the latest PBE report on how preventing mental health decline in children is also an investment in society's future.

Place2Be presented a conference to bring together school leaders, commissioners, funders and mental health experts.

Celebrate the power of relationships to transform the lives of children and young people in foster care.

In a joint letter to Rt Hon. Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State at the Department for Education (DfE), sector leaders call on the Government to tackle the attendance crisis.

The University of Cambridge has been working with Place2Be to analyse data from children who were supported with one-to-one counselling. The research aimed to understand whether the intervention was associated with improved school attendance and reduced persistent absence.

As the school year starts, Place2Be's Educational Psychologist team share interventions to help improve school attendance.

The toolkit, created by The Coalition for Inclusion and Anti-oppressive, launched in October 2023.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given us a glimpse of his priorities for the coming year.