The Big Lottery’s HeadStart initiative will help children aged between 10 and 14 cope with the pressures of modern life.
The funding will support the creation of cross-sector partnerships aimed at helping young people in the identified area, particularly those most at risk.
Support for young people will primarily be delivered through special resilience lessons in schools, although the funding is also intended to enable work through youth clubs and direct contact with families.
The areas that will benefit are Birmingham, Blackpool, Cornwall, Cumbria, Hull, Kent, Knowsley, Lewisham, Middlesbrough, Newham, Southampton, and Wolverhampton.
Sarah Brennan, chief executive of charity YoungMinds, said: “It is desperately sad that in an average classroom, 10 children will have witnessed their parents separate, one will have experienced the death of a parent, and seven will have been bullied and yet there is no single approach to supporting all our children at this key stage in their development.”
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