Education and Skills Funding Agency - Grants for senior mental health lead training

It only takes five minutes to reserve a £1,200 grant for DfE quality assured senior mental health lead training (beginner, intermediate and advanced level courses are available). Apply for your grant before the end of the financial year to include your setting in the list of 10,000 plus schools and colleges that have already benefited from the training.

Develop your mental health lead’s knowledge and practical skills to embed an effective whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing, including:

• Understanding and identifying mental health and wellbeing needs
• Approaches to plan and lead change to improve your approach
• Developing your setting’s universal and targeted support offer
• Strategies to listen to student/pupil voice and develop positive relationships with parents, families and carers
• Approaches to work effectively with community mental health services.

The grant can also be used to pay for supply cover to backfill the individual undertaking training, or for further support to sustain your approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Schools and colleges that have not yet applied, should do so through the link below, then book to attend a training course anytime in spring or summer academic terms 2023.

If you have already reserved but not yet claimed your grant, please book to attend a course in the spring or summer academic terms 2023 and complete the final part of your application as soon as possible.

See links to blogs written by schools that have undertaken the training here and here and a short film from a primary school

• Claim a grant now