Senior Mental Health Lead (SMHL) Data Gathering Survey

Overview

The Department for Education (DfE) has asked all schools to identify a Senior Mental Health Lead (SMHL) to help to implement a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing. Training for SMHLs is available and grants of £1,200 are being provided to eligible state-funded schools and colleges in England to enable access to the training. For more information, please see the DfE website.

As a County Council, we would like to be able to offer regular support, training and networking opportunities to SMHLs, much in the same way that we do to Designated Safeguarding Leads. To enable us to contact SMHLs, we need schools to provide their details via this survey.

NB: Please note that the directory of SMHLs will be maintained via the West Sussex Services for Schools website. Therefore, if you do not already have a West Sussex Services account, then we will use the information supplied to set one up on your behalf so that you are able to receive support updates.

For any questions or more information about SMHLs, please contact Tanya Procter, Joint Commissioner for Health and Wellbeing in Schools, via tanya.procter@westsussex.gov.uk

Privacy Statement

West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is registered as a ‘data controller’ with the Information Commissioner’s Office) (ICO - Reg. No. Z6413427), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

We comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR). This ensures that your personal data is processed fairly and kept securely for no longer than is necessary.

Only staff and third parties who are entitled to see the information included in your responses will have access to it and they may only use it for the purposes stated.

We have strict security measures in place to prevent the alteration, loss or misuse of your information.

We will hold your personal information electronically for 18 months, in line with WSCC retention record keeping guidelines, after which time it will be securely destroyed.

Our full privacy statement can be viewed at Privacy Policy - West Sussex County Council

Accessibility Statement

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us at school.services@westsussex.gov.uk and we will do our best to assist you. If you have the NGT Texting app installed on your laptop, PC or smartphone, then please use this app to contact us on 18001 (01243 777807)

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Survey Web Browser Compatibility

Please use one of the browsers below when completing the survey to ensure it looks and works as it should. These are:

· Microsoft Edge version 86 and above

· Chrome version 86 and above

· Firefox version 78 and above

· Safari version 14 and above