Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of staff he plans to recruit to the proposed Mental Health Support Teams.
The number of staff who will form the Mental Health Support Teams as announced in our recent green paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision, will be determined according to local circumstances, and will be informed through responses to the Green Paper consultation and tested by initial trailblazer sites.
The trailblazers may take different approaches in each area depending on local need and we will use the trailblazers to test and evaluate different models to inform ongoing roll-out.