Designated mental health lead support

Find out about DMHL newsletter, meetings, training and campaign days.

Designated mental health leads newsletter ​​

We send out a half-termly newsletter for DMHLs in schools and settings. Called the ‘Designated mental health leads newsletter’, it’s aimed at DMHLs but will be of interest to anyone supporting SEMH in children and young people.

To read the current academic year’s editions download the following documents:

To sign up email us at semhstrategy@essex.gov.uk 

Mental health campaign days

We’ve put together a list of key SEMH campaign days and dates for the current academic year, should you wish to celebrate them in your school or setting.

For the list of campaign days and dates download our Mental health and emotional wellbeing campaign days calendar (Word, 40KB). 

DMHL meetings

We run a series of network meetings for Essex DHMLs across the academic year. These take place once a term and are either online county-wide meetings or face-to-face quadrant cluster meetings.

These meetings are only for DHMLs who work in schools and settings in Essex.

Upcoming meetings

Individual face-to-face DMHL meetings for each quadrant cluster will take place on the following dates:

Mid quadrant meeting

Wednesday 3 July 2024 - 10am to 12pm

North East quadrant meeting

Wednesday 12 June 2024 - 10am to 12pm

South quadrant meeting

Wednesday 26 June 2024 - 10am to 12pm

West quadrant meeting

Thursday 4 July 2024 - 10am to 12pm

To book your place at one of the meetings, visit our Education Essex Online Booking System web page.

DMHL training

We offer DMHL training as part of the government’s commitment to offer this to all eligible schools and colleges by 2025.

For more information about this training visit our ​Designated mental health lead (DMHL) training page.