Mental Health Champions offer from September 2025
Thank you for accessing this page. We are now able to share what the Mental Health Champions offer will look like for 2024-25!
Mental Health Champions Network meetings
We are now happy to confirm dates for nearly all of the MHC Network meetings for this year, and you are now able to book places for Autumn 2 and Spring 1 via
www.skills4bradford.co.uk . Please note the following:
- Half termly sessions instead of termly
- Morning sessions (9.30-11.00) and afternoon sessions (1.30-3.00), plus a few twighlight sessions (3.30-5.00)
- Five dates to choose from each half term, with some being delivered face to face in different venues across the district. Please note:
- We are still securing venues for some face to face sessions and will communicate these as soon as possible. If venues are unavailable or bookings are very low, we will default to a Teams delivery instead.
If you think your school could host a session (max. 25 people), please let us know via
mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk – we would be very grateful!
- We are trying to offer a fair spread of face to face sessions in different areas of Bradford across the year to increase accessibility. However, you are free to attend whichever location is the most convenient for you (e.g. attendance at an East meeting
location is not limited to people working in schools in the East of Bradford).
- Unfortunately we cannot offer hybrid attendance at face to face meetings – sorry!
- Tea and coffee facilities may vary from venue to venue. To be on the safe side, please come
- Attendance is for named Mental Health Champions, but also for anybody other members of school staff who have a professional interest in supporting mental health in school.
Schools may book up to two spaces each via Skills4Bradford, with requests for additional people to come via
mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk please (so we can add people to a waiting list and offer spaces once
we know what overall attendance is likely to look like)
Dates for sessions (Morning sessions 9.30-11.00 / Afternoon sessions 1.00-2.30 / Twighlight sessions 3.30-5.00):
Spring 1 – available to book via Skills4Bradford now:
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Monday 19th Jan
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Monday 19th Jan
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PM
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Virtual - Teams
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Tuesday 20th Jan
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Wednesday 21st Jan
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Wednesday 21st Jan
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PM
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Virtual - Teams |
Spring 2 – dates for reference – Skills4Bradford bookings to open later in the year:
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Monday 9th March
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Tuesday 10th March
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AM
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City Hall, Committee Room 4
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Tuesday 10th March
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Twighlight
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Virtual - Teams
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Wednesday 11th March
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Wednesday 11th March
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PM
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Virtual - Teams
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Summer 1 - dates for reference – Skills4Bradford bookings to open later in the year:
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Monday 18th May
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AM
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Central (venue TBC)*
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Tuesday 19th May
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PM
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North (venue TBC)*
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Weds 20th May
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Friday 22nd May
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AM
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Reevy Hill Children’s Centre*
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Friday 22nd May
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PM
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Virtual - Teams
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Summer 2 - dates for reference – Skills4Bradford bookings to open later in the year:
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Monday 15th June
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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Monday 15th June
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PM
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Virtual - Teams
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Tuesday 16th June
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AM
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West (venue TBC)*
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Tuesday 16th June
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PM
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East (venue TBC)*
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Wednesday 17th June
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AM
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Virtual - Teams
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* Sessions may be changed to virtual nearer the time, depending on uptake
Mental Health Champions Newsletters
We will continue to send these out via email on a termly basis, to keep schools up to date with local and national developments. If you do not already receive these, please email
mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk and ask to be added to the mailing list. Copies of previous newsletters can also be downloaded retrospectively from the links below.
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*NEW! Training for Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA)*
The Emotional Literacy Support Assistant intervention (ELSA) is an educational psychology-led programme of training and ongoing supervision for identified school staff (ELSAs) that is already available in many other areas of the country, including in neighbouring
local authorities. We are delighted to now be able to pilot this in Bradford and look forward to training our first 16 ELSAs this year!
As ELSA becomes more established in Bradford we hope to be able to widen the ELSA offer to more schools across the District. We will share more information as and when we are able to.
More information about ELSA can be found at
www.elsanetwork.org.
Revised THRIVE Toolkit for Schools
This document helps Bradford schools to make sense of what they can offer to pupils with different levels of mental health need and is structured around the THRIVE Framework. You can view and download a copy of the document
HERE.
Until February half term (2026), the Educational Psychology Team is able to continue to offer consultation with a member of school staff to help review what your individual school’s THRIVE offer looks like. Last year we linked with several schools to do
so, with feedback indicating that this helped them to gain clarity about what they offered but also helped them to see how they could boost their offer where necessary.
How do I access this? If you would like to book a consultation session with a member of our team, please email
mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk, putting “THRIVE consultation” in the email title, and we will contact you to arrange a convenient time.
Any questions about any of the MHC offer for this year? Please email us at
mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk if your question is not answered in the information above.
Dr Sophie Davis, Specialist Senior EP (Mental Health in Schools), September 2025
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