Analyse your situation: mental health provision audit tool

This auditing tool aims to support mental health leads to identify any areas for improvement when developing a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Divided into five key sections, the tool provides helpful prompts and questions for a mental health lead to consider when conducting an audit. The sections focus on the needs of the student, the whole school culture and environment, as well as the individual role of the mental health lead.

While the tool is not designed to cover all aspects of school mental health, it helps to identify areas where mental health provision may need to be developed.

Using this resource

This resource is designed for:

• use by mental health leads working with students aged 5 to 16
• use by staff working in primary and secondary schools.

Learning outcomes

This resource addresses the following learning outcomes:

• Use (and be able to adapt as required) relevant tools to assess need, and monitor interventions to support pupil and student progress.
• Implement a process to identify those who may need additional support, working with other staff across the school to use pre-existing documents, such as education health care plans, where appropriate.
• Monitor the impact of interventions provided to individuals or small groups and adapt the approach as needed.