Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department allocated to Enfield Council through the Wellbeing for Education Recovery Grant in each of the last ten years in real terms.

The department has been offering a grant to all state schools and colleges to train a senior mental health lead since October 2021, helping settings to develop their holistic approach to mental health and wellbeing. Senior mental health lead training grants are paid to eligible schools and colleges once they have completed their application and provided evidence of booking a department quality assured course.

The department publishes a list of schools and colleges that have claimed a senior mental health lead training grant, updated throughout the year, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-data-on-funding-claims-by-institutions. This data confirms that 33 grants were paid in 2021/22 to schools and colleges in the London Borough of Enfield, and 19 were paid in 2022/23, totalling £62,400 in grants to date.

The department also provided Wellbeing for Education Return/Recovery grants to local authorities in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, to provide additional support to state-funded schools and colleges to enable education staff to promote and support the wellbeing and mental health of pupils and students, during the return to schools and in the pandemic recovery period.

The London Borough of Enfield received a Wellbeing for Education Return grant of £37,356 in 2020/21 and a further Wellbeing for Education Recovery grant of £32,825 in 2021/22, amounting to a total of £70,181. This data can be obtained from the tables published in the Wellbeing for Education Return and Recovery grant determination letters which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter.