Published date: 19 December 2018

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£265,000

Procurement reference

tender_196366/733640

Published date

19 December 2018

Approach to market date

7 January 2019

Contract start date

31 March 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The mental health awareness training should equip members of staff with the skills and information to spot early signs of mental health conditions, so that they are able to have an open discussion with children and young people and point them to relevant the mental health support they need. The purpose of this mental health awareness training is to reduce stigma by shifting negative attitudes about mental health to enable early detection of mental health conditions.

Previous years of the programme have delivered training to a member of staff in 2,000 secondary schools in England. In the first two years of the programme 2000 members of staff in 2000 schools will have bee participated in a youth mental health awareness one day course delivered by Mental Health First Aid.
The key output for the third is to deliver appropriate mental health awareness training to one member of staff in the remaining 1000 secondary schools between April 2019 and March 2020.

Appropriate mental health awareness training should teach participants to:
· Spot the early signs of a mental health problem
· Feel confident helping someone experiencing a problem
· Provide help on a first aid basis
· Help prevent someone from hurting themselves or others
· Help stop a mental illness from getting worse
· Help someone to recover faster
· Guide someone towards the right support
· Reduce the stigma of mental health issues
· Improve resilience and about preventative mental health
· Build a mentally healthy school/workplace/community

More information

Additional text

Please email: Alexander.Baker@dhsc.gov.uk for updates regarding this procurement

About the buyer

Contact name

Alexander Baker

Address

39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
England

Email

Alexander.Baker@dhsc.gov.uk