SMHL annual refresher 2026/27
Keep your practice current. Stay confident in your role.
The landscape has kept moving since you trained as a senior mental health lead: new referral pathways, updated statutory guidance, more neurodiversity referrals and new evidence on social media and wellbeing. The annual refresher keeps your knowledge, your audit and your action planning up to date.
- For practising SMHLs, whoever trained you
- Online or face to face
- Updated every year
New to the role? Start with our Senior Mental Health Lead training.
Four modules. No filler.
The refresher is updated every year for the latest changes in policy, legislation and clinical guidance: just the updates that matter, time to reflect, and the audit work that keeps your practice grounded.
The 8 principles revisited
A focused recap of the DfE whole-school mental health framework, extended into deeper practice for experienced leads.
Updates in mental health and legislation
What’s changed since you trained: CAMHS pathways, KCSIE updates, neurodiversity, social media research and AI, distilled into what matters for your setting.
Implications for your context
Discussion and reflection connecting the updates to your school: your pupils, your staff, your parents and your own role.
Your audit, reviewed
Guided completion of your personal and setting audits, compared with your previous scores, and an action plan for the year ahead.
Online or face to face
Online
Work through the refresher at your own pace: video, written learning, downloadable audit tools and activities, with six months’ access from enrolment. Ideal if you can’t take a full day out of school.
Face to face
A full day of facilitated learning, discussion with other SMHLs and structured audit time, in London, Manchester and Birmingham. Dates to be confirmed: register your interest to hear first.
New to the role? Start with our Senior Mental Health Lead training.
Questions about the refresher
I trained with another provider. Can I join?
Yes. The refresher is for practising senior mental health leads, whoever delivered your original training.
What will I leave with?
An updated personal and setting audit, compared with your previous scores where you have them, and a focused action plan for the year ahead.
When are the face-to-face days?
In London, Manchester and Birmingham, with dates to be confirmed. Register your interest and you’ll be among the first to hear when bookings open.
Register your interest
Be among the first to hear when bookings open, for the online course and the face-to-face days.
What happens next
- Tell us which format: online, or a face-to-face day in London, Manchester or Birmingham.
- We’ll let you know as soon as bookings open.
- Book your place and we’ll invoice your school or college.
Questions?
Call 020 8680 4077 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm) or email [email protected].