Less than a third of teachers working at secondary schools with Ofsted ratings lower than “outstanding” have received mental health training, according to a new survey by the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF).
In the survey of around 4,000 teachers, 28 per cent who teach at schools judged as “good”, “requires improvement”, or “inadequate” said that they had received training, in comparison with 49 per cent from schools deemed “outstanding”.
Across all respondents, a total of 41 per cent of secondary school teachers had received mental health training in the 2021/22 academic year, compared with 35 per cent the previous year.
