Preventing escalation
Schools address emotional and behavioural needs earlier, suggesting less need for external referrals, interventions or crisis support.
For NHS commissioners
Prevention at scale
A universal prevention programme for every child. NHS-backed, with 50+ local authority and NHS place commissions across the UK. Proven impact on reducing referrals to CAMHS and Mental Health Support Teams and improving outcomes.
NHS-backed
Part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator
Our founder and CEO, Laura Earnshaw, is an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow. The NHS England programme supports proven, evidence-based innovations to scale across the NHS.
Aligned with NHS strategy
Helping the NHS put prevention first
The 10 Year Health Plan sets out three shifts: hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention. myHappymind is a digital, school-delivered prevention programme, so support reaches every child without waiting on clinical capacity. It complements the work of Mental Health Support Teams and is already helping ICBs to reach coverage targets.
What our National Impact Report shows
Our 2025/26 National Impact Report brings together data from over 1,000 schools. This short video shows what it found, including 7,551 CAMHS and 11,174 MHST referrals prevented.
Our NHS partnerships
Independently evaluated
The Centre for Mental Health’s 2026 evaluation of myHappymind looked at the programme’s impact across a population of 70,000 children. It found that a universal, whole-school approach helps schools address needs earlier, and it recommended that the Departments of Health and Education work together to support schools to take this approach, aligned with Mental Health Support Teams.
A whole-school approach, aligned with MHSTs
The report recommends health and education work together to support whole-school approaches, aligned with Mental Health Support Teams.
Inclusive across complex needs
Effective across a wide range of needs, including trauma, SEN and complex backgrounds.
A growing body of evidence
The findings align with previous studies from the University of Chester and Portsmouth City Council.
Case study
Prevention in practice: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Commissioned at ICB level, myHappymind reached 43,652 children across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Frimley and Portsmouth in 2025/26, in 172 schools and 37 early years settings. 6,157 families downloaded the parent app, and around 3,468 staff benefited from the staff wellbeing programme. A return on investment analysis across 135 schools, based on headteacher estimates, indicated 1,504 CAMHS, 2,522 MHST and 5,531 SENCO referrals prevented: a 46x return on investment. The Centre for Mental Health’s independent evaluation, which covered HIOW and Bradford, also found benefits for pupils with SEN and SEMH needs.
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Spotlight story
It does justify the investment made.
Commissioner Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB 
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Spotlight story
Since adopting myHappymind, we've seen a reduction in referrals to external services such as CAMHS. More issues are being addressed early, at a universal level, and children are developing independence in managing their wellbeing. This has reduced waiting lists, escalations and family stress.
Headteacher Tadley Community Primary School 
What commissioning includes
When you commission myHappymind, you get much more than a programme: everything schools need, implementation managed for you, and reporting that shows what it’s achieving.
Everything schools need
All the digital and physical resources teachers need to deliver the programme, CPD-certified staff wellbeing resources, the myHappymind parent app, and dedicated customer service support for each school.
Implementation, managed for you
Full project and implementation management from the myHappymind team.
Impact reporting, three times a year
A comprehensive overview of reach, engagement and impact data, with case studies and testimonials from the people using the programme.
Data for your MHSDS returns
Where myHappymind is commissioned by or with MHSTs, we provide engagement data showing reach against Function 2 access targets, ready to flow to the MHSDS.
Before the point of need
Unlike services that arrive at the point of need, myHappymind changes school culture from within. It empowers school staff to be central to delivery, enabling effective cultural change where schools proactively and preventatively support the wellbeing of all children, not only those who meet a threshold or hold a diagnosis, helping every child to thrive.
Investing in prevention, not just crisis
At the October 2026 myHappymind Live conference, Hayden Ginns MBE, Assistant Director for Children at Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, shared what five years of investing in prevention has taught Portsmouth. Low-cost universal support for every child helps reduce demand on high-cost services.
SEND reform
Inclusion at the heart of the programme
Inclusion is built into the programme’s design. All children learn the same content together, without withdrawal or significantly differentiated delivery. Every lesson, animation and activity is created with neurodivergent children in mind. The visual, practical and consistent structure makes it accessible to pupils with SEND and pupils who use English as an additional language.
myHappymind Belong
Helps schools plan, deliver and evidence whole-school inclusion, aligned with the Department for Education’s seven principles. It strengthens inclusive practice, supports children with SEND and reduces workload. The Experts at Hand grant conditions say offers should include "additional ... workforce and commissioned services". With real pressure on recruiting staff for people-led offers, a number of localities have turned to myHappymind for trusted resources that put schools at the centre of inclusive support for all pupils.
Inside a myHappymind school
Children and staff at Elton Primary School, a myHappymind accredited school, share how the programme has become part of everyday school life, and what has changed for the children since.
Spotlight story
"What has been particularly inspirational has been the feedback from children and young people and their families and the staff. From teachers around how it’s changed the culture and from headteachers about how its reduced the need for external services – how they are able to contain and support more children on their own. As a commissioner it has been very empowering having that evidence to take forward."
Jane Case, Assistant Director of Mental Health Strategic Commissioning and CYP Programme Manager for Bury at NHS Greater Manchester ICB
Your FAQs
How does myHappymind reduce demand on specialist services?
myHappymind is a universal, preventative programme taught to every child, so schools can address emotional and behavioural needs earlier. Based on data from over 1,000 schools nationally, myHappymind has prevented 7,551 CAMHS referrals, 11,174 MHST referrals and 18,895 SENCo referrals.
What is the return on investment of myHappymind?
Nationally, every £1 invested in myHappymind means the wider system avoids £18.50 in cost, an 18.5x return. In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, myHappymind has delivered a 46x return on investment and £17.6 million in benefits.
Where does the impact data come from?
The national figures come from data collected from over 1,000 schools, published in our National Impact Report.
How many areas commission myHappymind?
myHappymind is commissioned by 50 NHS and local authority partners across the UK.
Why should commissioners invest in prevention?
Universal support that every child and family experiences is relatively low cost, and it helps reduce demand on high-cost mental health and children's services. As Hayden Ginns, Assistant Director for Children at Portsmouth City Council, put it, "We sometimes lose sight of the universal things that we could be doing in the city, which are relatively low cost in the big scheme of things."
How does myHappymind support children with SEND?
Inclusion is at the heart of the programme’s design. All children access the same content together, without the need for withdrawal or significantly differentiated delivery, and every lesson, animation and activity has been created with neurodivergent children in mind.
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