Belfast Locality Planning Newsletter – 18th September 2025

Flyer from Locality Planning Belfast dated 18/09/25 promoting the "Children & Young People's Resource Pack – Back to School Edition." It features a graphic of a notebook surrounded by school-related icons. The flyer highlights contents such as activities, tips for starting school, back-to-school ideas, support for transitions, lunchbox and snack ideas, results day encouragement, and wellbeing tools. A download link and contact email are provided.

Flyer from Locality Planning Belfast dated 18/09/25 promoting the “Children & Young People’s Resource Pack – Back to School Edition.” It features a graphic of a notebook surrounded by school-related icons. The flyer highlights contents such as activities, tips for starting school, back-to-school ideas, support for transitions, lunchbox and snack ideas, results day encouragement, and wellbeing tools. A download link and contact email are provided.

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Mental Health Strategy – Early Intervention and Prevention – Service Directory

In support of actions 1 and 2 of the Mental Health Strategy and Mental Health early intervention and prevention, the Public Health Agency are encouraging all stakeholders to contribute to the new Minding Your Head webpage service directory.

You are invited to add mental health and emotional wellbeing services (outlined in the ‘service type’ section of the guide) your organisation provides in your local community.

Please also engage with all organisations that you commission to encourage them to add their services, and share this opportunity for inclusion in the service directory with your partnerships and networks.

Please make separate submissions for each service. The purpose of submitting individual services offered by your organisation is to benefit the individual searching the directory to understand the specific support options available to them.

Adding your service

Please follow the instructions below and the attached guide to add each service to the directory.

The attached guide outlines the following:

  1. Eligibility criteria
  2. Exclusion criteria
  3. Service type
  4. Public Health Agency quality standards  
  5. Information accuracy and completeness
  6. Information required
  7. Content guidelines
  8. Verification and updates
  9. Consent

Setting up your Minding Your Head account

  • Your username is the email address used to receive this correspondence.
  • Using this email address please follow this link [Reset your password | Minding Your Head] to generate a temporary password. You will then be able to set a new password and update your organisation’s contact details and add information for all your organisations services.
  • Remember to make separate submissions for each service.

Adding service submission details

  • Refer to the attached guide for details.
  • If you wish to add email information to your submission form please do not use personalised email addresses such as ‘joe.bloggs@’, instead use generic email addresses such as ‘info@’.

If you would like to remove your service from the Minding Your Head website and contact list, please respond ‘opt out’ to this email.  

Email any queries to myh@hscni.net  

NSPCC Listen Up Speak Up

Listen up Speak up is an NSPCC campaign aimed at empowering people to know what to do if they’re ever worried about a child or family.

NSPCC are offering free face-to-face and virtual workshops to community groups, businesses, schools, and any organisations wanting to learn how we can all keep children safe.

To book a FREE workshop visit: Listen up, Speak up | NSPCC 

Image with text and people promoting NSPCC training to help keep children safe

Image with text and people promoting NSPCC training to help keep children safe