Apply Now: Senior Mental Health Lead Training Grant Funding Program 2024-25 (UK)

Purpose of the senior mental health lead training grant will provide grants to cover, or contribute towards, the cost of DfE quality assured training for a senior member of school or college staff to train as the ‘senior mental health lead’ for that setting. The training will develop the knowledge and skills to implement an effective whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing in that setting.

Funding Information

• The Department for Education (DfE) is offering a grant of £1,200 in the 2024 to 2025 financial year.

Eligible Activities

• Further training, activity or resources may include:
  • additional courses or coaching that support the further development of the senior mental health lead, enabling them to establish, implement or sustain a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing
  • external support to assess your existing school or college approach to promoting and supporting mental health, to identify strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement
  • online resources and toolkits that support the senior lead, or other staff, to embed, sustain or, otherwise, improve the effectiveness of their whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing (many resources are available for free)
  • other activities by the senior lead within their setting that focus on raising wider awareness and understanding of their whole school or college approach to better promote and support mental health (for example, promotion materials or awareness sessions for education staff)

Eligibility Criteria

• All state-funded education settings receiving Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) pre-16 revenue, high needs block or 16 to 19 programme funding are eligible for the grant, including:
  • mainstream academies and local authority maintained schools
  • special academies and local authority maintained special schools (including alternative provision)
  • independent special schools whose pupils’ education is funded by their local authority
  • further education (FE) colleges attended by under-18-year-olds (one claim per campus ID)
  • sixth-form colleges
  • special post-16 institutions
  • non-maintained special schools
  • local authorities
  • independent training providers

Ineligibility Criteria

• Independent institutions (with fee-paying pupils and students) that do not receive the funding types outlined above are not eligible for a grant. Ineligible settings can still access DfE quality assured training courses independently.
• This training grant is not available for leaders of early years settings.

For more information, visit DFE.