Senior Leads for Mental Health Training Programme

The Department for Education are seeking a supplier, or consortium of suppliers to deliver a national Senior Mental Health Leads training programme. This involves the development and subsequent delivery of a training programme across all state- funded schools and colleges in England to be delivered over a period from January 2020 up to July 2024 (subject to contract extension periods being taken up at the Department's discretion).

The training will support education settings to make existing senior mental health lead roles effective, and incentivise education settings without a lead to establish such a role. The national roll out of this training is part of proposals to improve mental health provision for children and young people outlined in the mental health Green Paper 'Transforming children and young people's mental health provision' published in December 2017.

The training will support the mental health of children and young people, by providing the opportunity for schools and colleges to equip a member of staff with the knowledge and skills to implement effective processes for ensuring pupils and students with mental health problems receive appropriate support, and to promote positive mental health within the setting so that it becomes a key part of how education settings operate. The senior mental health lead is not a mandated role, rather, education settings may choose whether and how to embed the role, for instance, creating a new role or integrating it with existing arrangements for pastoral care to make the most of their existing roles responsible for discharging formal statutory requirements.

The procurement documents are available, free of charge, at: https://education.app.jaggaer.com Additional information: The DfE is inviting responses from Potential Contractors as to whether they are likely to submit a tender for this procurement against the requirements as detailed in this ITT. Where a Potential Contractor indicates that they are unlikely to submit a tender the DfE would welcome details on the reasons for this.

Responses from Potential Contractors to this question are invited by Wednesday 17th July 2019. The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://education.app.jaggaer.com Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://education.app.jaggaer.com Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the abovementioned address