The guidance outlines how secondary education providers and service commissioners can help protect 11- to 19-year-olds by providing a friendly and supportive environment that meets their social and emotional needs.
Recommendations include working in partnership with parents, carers and other family members and developing partnerships between young people and staff to implement and evaluate organisation-wide approaches to promoting wellbeing.
Mike Kelly, public health excellence centre director at Nice, said: "This guidance aims to help schools, colleges and children's services to ensure young people's social and emotional needs are recognised during secondary education."
He added that the guidance highlighted the importance of young people participating in the development of programmes relating to their social and emotional wellbeing.
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