School Exclusion: Timpson Review

Debate between Lord Agnew of Oulton and Baroness Newlove

Tuesday 7th May 2019 Lords Chamber

[Lord Agnew of Oulton]

I assure the noble Lord that we are making a very bullish bid.

[Baroness Newlove (Con)]

My Lords, I welcome this report, but after listening to my colleagues in the House of Lords I think there is one area that would help parents: looking at health visitors. We hardly see any health visitors wherever we go. It is good to bring them in to help them to understand the education process.

[Lord Agnew of Oulton]

We have committed to the deployment of mental health leads in schools over the last two years, and they are being rolled out as we speak. Good mental health is an absolute priority. We recently issued the Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health. We are aiming to incentivise and support schools and colleges to identify and train a mental health lead. We are introducing new mental health support teams and are teaching about mental health in the new health education curriculum that will come into place in September next year.