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Schools offered Covid-19 mental health support in £8m government programme

Mental health experts are to provide training and support to schools as part of a national programme to tackle the emotional impact of Covid-19 on students and staff.


The £8 million initiative is to run from this September until March 2021 and the funding will be used to appoint and train “local experts” to adapt and provide training and resources to nominated staff in all state-funded schools and colleges in England, providing advice and support through to March 2021.

Entitled Wellbeing for Education Return, the programme is to be developed by MindEd, an e-learning mental health platform, and delivered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

It is being funded by Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health and Social Care, Health Education England, NHS England and Public Health England.

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