Mainstream Secondary Schools needed for an Education for Wellbeing project

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is recruiting mainstream secondary schools to take part in England's largest research trial of school-based mental health interventions, commissioned by the Department for Education. Their Education for Wellbeing programme will work with over 370 schools to evaluate pioneering ways of supporting the mental wellbeing of pupils.

Participating schools will be randomly allocated to deliver one of two interventions or to continue with their usual practice. The two research projects are the AWARE project for Year 9, and the INSPIRE project for Years 7 and 8. The first wave of the project is already underway and schools started delivery in January 2019.

They are now recruiting mainstream secondary schools to take part in the second wave of their research, delivering the interventions next academic year (2019-2020). Schools allocated to an intervention delivered by school staff will receive free training from the Centre. All participating schools will be remunerated £1000.

For more information please download their poster, or visit their 'Education for Wellbeing' web page where you can also complete an 'Expression of Interest' form.

The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 5 April 2019. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

If you are successful in applying to be part of this Anna Freud training programme, we would love to hear from you. Please email Anna Sims.