Project to improve mental health in schools across Milton Keynes to launch
A mental health project to train school leaders and governors across Milton Keynes is launching this month.
More than 70 schools have signed up to the development programme, which is a partnership between Leeds Beckett University, Milton Keynes Council and social enterprise Minds Ahead.
The project will see schools working with the university’s Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.
Those taking part will set up effective whole-school approaches, with mental health and wellbeing lead governors using the centre’s specialist online support and assessment programmes.
Professor Damien Page, Dean of the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett, said: “As one of the country’s best performing providers of teacher education, we’re committed to working with schools nationwide to improve outcomes for children.
“This new partnership - the first of its kind - will establish a framework of support and provide much-needed expertise in an area that is becoming an increasing concern in the country’s schools.”
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