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With new evidence raising concerns about children’s mental health and wellbeing, Bounce Forward explores why the next chapter of prevention must go beyond addressing difficulties. From belonging and agency to psychological fitness and the Happy Schools Index, we consider how schools can strengthen what matters and build what lasts.
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The Happy Schools Index helps schools listen to how children feel about their lives. But listening is only the beginning. Explore how insight can help strengthen psychological fitness, relationships and the wider school community — for pupils, staff and families.
We have become increasingly good at noticing when children are struggling. But prevention has to mean more than finding problems earlier. It also means noticing the strengths, skills and capacities children are developing through everyday life — including the small struggles that help them discover what they can do.
We’re delighted to see Harry Kane nominated for the 2026 Ballon d’Or — not just for his season on the pitch, but for the leadership and quiet commitment we’ve seen through our Foundation partnership.
Children are not patients-in-waiting. If we frame childhood mainly through risk, symptoms and disorder, we risk missing the bigger developmental task: helping children build psychological fitness — the capacity to regulate, recover and adapt — alongside confidence, connection and growing agency.
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