Department for Education (DfE) grants worth around £750,000 have been given to three major charities to help support work in schools focusing on building relationships, resilience and anti-bullying.
Meanwhile, a £95,000 pilot project led by the staff wellbeing charity Education Support is to support the mental health of around 250 school leaders via online peer-support and telephone supervision from experts.
The grants come as the DfE publishes the first of 14 online training modules to help teachers deliver aspects of the new statutory relationships, sex and health education curriculum, which comes into force in September.
The curriculum includes a strong focus on mental health, making its introduction particularly timely given the expected impact of the coronavirus lockdown on young people’s wellbeing.
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