Schools: Mental Health Services

(asked on 15th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Eastbourne constituency have applied for a grant for senior mental health lead training.


Answered by
David Johnston Portrait
David Johnston
This question was answered on 18th January 2024

The department began offering schools and colleges a grant to train senior mental health leads in October 2021. A list of schools and colleges receiving a senior mental health lead training grant is published and updated throughout the year. This list can be found at the following link, alongside details of other payments to institutions: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-data-on-funding-claims-by-institutions.

​In the 2021/22 financial year, seven schools and colleges within the Eastbourne constituency applied for the senior mental health training grant. In the 2022/23 financial year, a further five schools and colleges applied for the grant, which totals twelve grant applications to date. In the 2023/24 financial year, there were no grant applications in this constituency for Q1 and Q2.

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