Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2022 to Question 100615 on Education: Mental Health Services, how many school and college children will be covered by the 11 planned mental health support teams.

The exact number of children and young people will be determined by local commissioners in consultation with education setting partners as part of service planning. Each mental health support team is expected to provide sufficient capacity to deliver services to 7,000 to 8,000 pupils, which will usually mean working with an average of 10 to 20 education settings.