Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools and colleges have claimed a grant for training a senior mental health lead in each year since that grant was introduced.

The Department’s ambition was for around a third of all state schools and colleges to benefit from senior mental health lead training in the 2021/22 financial year as part of its commitment to offer this training to all state schools and colleges by 2025. Between October 2021 and 31 March 2022 8,280 schools and colleges had successfully claimed a grant, representing 35% of the total schools and colleges eligible to apply (out of 23,695).

Further information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has also published data on the number of senior mental health lead training grants paid to eligible schools and colleges. As of 31 July 2022, 930 grants had been paid to schools and colleges in the 2022/23 financial year.