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<p>The Wellbeing for Education Return programme ran from August 2020 to March 2021
and funded local authorities to provide free expert training, support, and resources
for school staff to help them understand and respond to the mental wellbeing issues
faced by children and young people as a result of the additional pressures they have
faced in the last year. Formal reporting to the Department for Education was not a
condition of the Section 31 Grant to local authorities. However, we asked local authorities
to provide management information to understand their intended delivery of the programme,
reach and impact and wider qualitative information.</p><p>From the information provided,
it has been estimated that:</p><ul><li>Local experts from 96% of England’s local authority
areas attended interactive training on delivering Wellbeing for Education Return support
and resources into schools and colleges.</li><li>The training reached up to 12,000
schools and colleges[1] with free expert training, support and resources for staff
dealing with children and young people experiencing additional pressures from the
last year, including trauma, anxiety, or grief.</li></ul><p>Some local areas also
conducted their own local evaluations of the programme and further information about
specific areas delivery plans may be available by contacting the relevant local authority.</p><p>The
Grant Determination Letter for Wellbeing for Education Return, including each local
authorities funding allocation can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909607/LA_Grant_Determination_Letter.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909607/LA_Grant_Determination_Letter.pdf</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>[1] This figure has been generated from our Wellbeing for Education Return
(WER) Management Information 4 collection sent out to local authority WER leads in
March 2021. The figure was calculated as a total of the estimated number of education
settings each responding local authority said they had delivered training to as a
result of, or using some materials provided by, WER. This includes both live and recorded
sessions. The figure is based on a return rate of 80% which equates to 122 local authorities
out of a total of 151 who were sent the Management Information Return.</p><p> </p>
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