After a year of COVID chaos, UK schools were dealt another huge blow. In March 2021 the publication of fourteen thousand testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment on the Everyone’s Invited website triggered an immediate Ofsted investigation.

Innovate UK has given Tellmi a grant of £393,823 to integrate machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) into the Tellmi app to create a state of the art suicide prevention solution for children and young people (CYP) aged 11+.

It is an honour to be recognised as one of the leaders of British innovation in the digital mental health sector and we’re really excited to represent the UK at the Expo during the Health and Wellbeing week.

Research suggests that boys self-harm in different ways to girls. Girls who self-harm are more likely to cut themselves, or to overdose (Young et al., 2007), whereas boys who self-harm are more likely to punch walls, drink heavily, take drugs, or control their eating (Nada-Raja et al., 2004).

On March 20th, the government announced that schools were being locked down in response to the COVID crisis. Suddenly, students who had been getting face to face counselling at school could no longer access support.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread impact on the entire education system. Teachers have had to adapt to a new way of teaching, and consequently, a new way of life.