Introduction

This free course, Supporting children and young people’s wellbeing, introduces different ways of understanding wellbeing as well as related concepts such as resilience. There is a wide a variety of practices and services that provide support for children and young people’s wellbeing and this course also explores how they can make a difference to children and young people’s lives. FInally, the course considers how those working with children and young people can know whether they are making a difference or not – what are the ways in which this can be evaluated?

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course KE206 Making a difference: working with children and young people.