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Children’s Mental Health Week: Highlighting PANS and PANDAS across Primary and Secondary Schools

Children’s Mental Health Week: Highlighting PANS and PANDAS across Primary and Secondary Schools

Children’s Mental Health Week: Highlighting PANS and PANDAS across Primary and Secondary Schools

We are pleased to share that an article on PANS and PANDAS has been published in Headteacher Update and SecEd, two leading education magazines. These articles provide valuable insights into supporting children and young people living with these conditions in education.

You can access them here:

Headteacher Update

SecEd

Headteacher Update serves primary school leadership teams with expert guidance and best practices while SEcEd, its sister publication, supports secondary school educators and leaders.

As we mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2025, this article highlights a crucial yet often overlooked issue: infections can trigger psychiatric and physical symptoms in children and young people.

With many thanks to the editor Pete Henshaw, for his support. Please consider sharing these articles with any relevant professionals.

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Glossary

  • ADHD
    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • AE
    Auto-immune Encephalitis
  • ARFID
    Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
  • ASD
    Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • CAMHS
    Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
  • CBT
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Dysgraphia
    difficulty writing by hand
  • EHCP
    Education, Health and Care Plan
  • Emotional Lability
    Rapid, and dramatic changes in mood (for example uncontrollable laughter to crying)
  • Enuresis
    wetting
  • GAS
    Group A Streptococcal infection
  • NHSE
    NHS England
  • NICE
    National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • OCD
    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • PP
    PANS PANDAS
  • PPUK
    PANS PANDAS UK
  • PPN
    PANS Physicians Network
  • PPSG
    PANS PANDAS Steering Group
  • SENCo
    Special Educational Needs Coordinator
  • SIGN
    Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network to the glossary
  • Tic
    Sudden repetitive movement (motor tic) or sound (vocal tic) which is difficult or impossible to control