
Briefing: Mental Health Taskforce – Higher Education Student Support Champion
13th July 2023
Edward Peck, Higher Education Student Support Champion
This latest two-page briefing update, written by Edward Peck, focuses on the launch of the Higher Education Mental Health Implementation Taskforce. The July update includes:
- Student analytics – do you have a plan to put in place the data points outlined in an earlier briefing on my joint specification produced with Jisc?
- Compassionate communication – are you exploring the revision of your student-facing communications to make them more sensitive to how they may be received by students?
- Suicide reviews – are you adopting the recent UUK postvention guidance?
- Student Mental Health Charter – if you have not yet signed up, could you do so by August 16th?
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