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      Mental Health Support Teams: How to maximise the impact of the new workforce for children and young people

      In December 2017, the government introduced a new policy to create Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) to work with children and staff in education settings.

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      Using Psychology to Make Better Policy

      This document will show how psychological insights can be applied to political decision making at both the individual and policy development level.

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      What does the Policy Unit do?

      Please welcome back Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, Lead Policy Advisor for the British Psychological Society, with this piece about what exactly her work (and the work of her team) entails.

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      BPS Policy Statement - Early years care and support

      The early years are an important time for child development.

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      Pushing policy forwards

      Our Policy Unit has been enjoying increasing success, and is now concentrating its efforts on creating a sustained impact in parliament by pushing forwards numerous key policies.

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      Briefing Paper: Resilience and Character

      This policy briefing sets out the latest psychological evidence on character and resilience to support the creation of more effective policies.

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      Whistleblowing policy

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      A Psychological Manifesto

      The BPS is calling for all political parties to consider how psychological evidence and expertise can improve policy making.

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      The first 100 days

      Our Policy Team is back with a new blog discussing the government’s first 100 days in office and how the BPS can continue to influence public policy.

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      Briefing paper: from poverty to flourishing - foundations for the best start in life

      This introduces psychological frameworks which, if embedded in wider social contexts, can increase policy makers’ understanding of how poverty affects people's experiences.

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      Psychology at work: improving wellbeing and productivity in the workplace

      This report from the British Psychological Society brings together evidence from across the discipline to demonstrate how policy makers can better tackle the interconnected challenges of economic growth, global competitiveness, and employee wellbeing and productivity.

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      Children, young people and mental health: communicating in an online world

      The following article has been produced by Rosie Horne, who recently joined our Policy Team here at The British Psychological Society.

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        • Updates from the British Psychological Society’s Policy team

          28 November 2020

          From Ella Rhodes.

          • BPS updates
          • Government and politics

        • How can we embed psychology in public policy?

          08 April 2019

          We hear from members of the British Psychological Society’s Policy Team…

          • BPS updates
          • Government and politics

        • Growing influence

          02 March 2021

          Ella Rhodes reports on activity from the British Psychological Society's Policy team.

          • BPS updates
          • Government and politics

        • ‘My job is to use evidence to change the conversation’

          08 August 2017

          Paul Dawson is Head of Research within the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime – the body that has statutory responsibility over the Metropolitan Police. His team, Evidence and Insight, is an eclectic mixture of more than 20 psychologists, crime analysts and others. The aim is to inform evidence-based policy making for London – and, ultimately, to make London safer.

          • Legal, criminological and forensic