Whole-school approach audit tool : Mentally Healthy Schools

This audit tool aims to help schools and colleges to work towards developing a Whole School or College Approach to mental health and wellbeing.

It provides a series of questions relating to each of the Department for Education’s 8 Principles and asks the user to score their progress on a scale from ‘not in place’ to ‘fully embedded’.

The audit tool uses the answers given by the user to generate a jargon-free and accessible report. This would offer a good starting point for mental health leads and senior leaders to consider what they may need to implement to fully embed each principle.

This tool also contains helpful signposting to additional resources and training for further information and support.

Using this resource

This resource is designed for:

use by mental health leads working with students aged 5 to 19+.

Learning outcomes

This resource addresses the following learning outcomes:

Create a plan to develop, implement and sustain a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing, tailored to their setting’s needs.
Sustain and continually improve the approach in their setting, working effectively with peers and support networks, Monitor the impact of a whole school or college approach in their setting.