Preventing Self-Harm: A Leadership Approach for Schools

About this training

This training shares key resources and frameworks to prevent self-harm and opportunities to reflect on how your current school ethos and culture may already be supporting self-harm prevention. Course participants are not expected to be mental health or self-harm specialists and are not required to have had previous experience of leading a strategy to prevent self-harm.

This training is for primary and secondary school leaders from non-fee paying education settings and has been designed to develop their knowledge of how to prevent self-harm within their settings.

If you have any questions about this programme, please email school.training@annafreud.org.

Aims of this training

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

• Understand what self-harm is and how to lead self-harm prevention in your school.

• Implement self-harm policies and procedures within your whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

• Recognise what makes students more vulnerable to self-harm and understand the best way to respond when needed.

• Evaluate how your setting’s ethos promotes emotional literacy and relational approaches.

• Support staff wellbeing and development as part of your whole-school strategy to prevent self-harm.

Who is this training for?

Primary and secondary school leaders from non-fee paying education settings, such as:

• Headteachers/principals

• Senior Mental Health Leads

• Deputy, and Assistant Heads

• SENCos

• Designated Safeguarding Leads.

If you are unsure if you are eligible to apply, please contact: school.training@annafreud.org