Don’t miss your opportunity for DfE grant funded ‘Senior Mental Health Lead Training’

The Warwickshire Educational Psychology Service (EPS) are delighted to be supporting the Department for Education (DfE) Senior Mental Health Lead training programme. The training developed by the EPS focuses in detail on how schools and colleges ethos, teaching and learning can promote wellbeing and mental health. The Warwickshire EPS course is currently one of 68 national courses to be quality assured by Leeds Beckett University and listed on the DfE register of approved courses. Book your place today!

The DfE is offering £1200 funding to every state funded school to help further train and embed a  whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Drawing upon the 8 principles within the Public Health England (PHE) and DfE guidance 2021, Senior Leads are encouraged to sign up to the grant to access training which supports their settings needs. Check your eligibility Conditions of Grant

Dawn Preece and Gemma Gough, Warwickshire’s Specialist Senior EPs for SEMH, will launch the course to the first cohort of settings in the Spring Term 2022. Having supported a diverse range of Warwickshire settings, Gemma and Dawn are thrilled to be running a training course with a national reach. Senior Leads will network and collaboratively share experiences of best practice within two key principle areas.

Gemma and Dawn shared “We are aware from supporting our schools that they are experienced in many of the PHE 8 principles, especially around supporting pupils, families and colleagues. So, we decided to produce a training course which addressed two of the principles that can be more challenging to prioritise and change in settings. By providing Senior Leads the opportunity for in-depth look at their ethos and mental health/wellbeing curriculum, we hope to support longer lasting change, a key expectation of the DfE . Leads on our course will create an Action Plan and receive trainer feedback to help further embed their whole school/college’s approach to mental health”.

The Warwickshire EPS course is competitively priced at £250. Senior Leads will have grant funds remaining to spend on additional training/resources to support the development of their Senior Mental Health Lead role.

For further information and course details please click here.