Demand the best Student Welfare support from your PBSA partners
A new good practice guide on student wellbeing and mental health is being published. But this hardly seems like news. Student mental health has been high on the sector’s agenda for at least the last two years, and guidance is plentiful.
This one, however, is not published by a sector body or charity working in this area but by the real estate industry body, the British Property Federation. “Student Wellbeing in Purpose-Built Student Accommodation” has been developed by a partnership of private accommodation providers, sector bodies including Universities UK, the Department for Education and student representing bodies including NUS.
Over the two years of its development I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to articulate to sector colleagues just why this guide is needed. I have come to realise that private student accommodation – and possibly student accommodation in general – occupies an ill-defined position within the higher education landscape …