During sleep, your body heals itself and restores its chemical balance. Your brain forges new connections and helps memory retention. Without enough sleep, your brain and body systems won’t function normally and for children and young people, lack of sleep can have a real impact on behaviour, concentration and health.
If you are looking for help to tackle bedtimes and sleeping then there are a variety of tips and organisations that can help.
Find out more about the THRIVE Framework for system change (Wolpert et al., 2019) through this animation
Co-produced by National i-THRIVE Programme, The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust Patient and Public Involvement Team, The Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families Young Champions, and Mummu.