Established to support the development of school councils and to promote pupil voice, our Voicebox network encourages and empowers pupils by helping them to use their voice in a meaningful and effective way. The first network meeting of the new academic year and will be incorporating both Mental Health and Anti-Bullying in response to World Mental Health Day (10 October) and the upcoming Anti-Bullying week (12-16 November). We are excited to announce Kooth will be attending to present a workshop to our young people on mental health and social media.
Any secondary School Council Coordinators/Leads in Manchester City Council who are signed up to the 2018-19 Manchester Healthy Schools programme are invited to attend with up to 4 students.
The first Voicebox event will take place Thursday 18 October and is now fully booked. However, we still have a number of places at the meetings for the rest of the year - you can book your school a place here. The dates are as follows:
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Wednesday 6 February 2019
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Wednesday 10 July 2019
For further enquiries please contact: eleanor.reed@mft.nhs.uk