Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects all schools in York to have a designated mental health team.

398 teams are operational as of Spring 2023, covering 6,800 schools and colleges, and 35% of pupils in schools and learners in Further Education. An additional 100 teams have also undertaken training in 2022/23. Locally, NHS England has managed to secure two further teams, one in York and one in North Yorkshire, as part of wave nine of the programme which commenced in January 2024. The role out in York is going well and baseline surveys have started for all schools. Schools in wave five of the programme are listed below:

- York High;

- Vale of York;

- Clifton Green;

- Poppleton Ousebank;

- Westfield Primary;

- Carr Junior School; and

- Lake Side Primary.

Schools in wave nine of the programme are listed below:

- Joseph Rowntree;

- Huntington Secondary;

- Archbishop Holgate;

- Robert Wilkinson Primary;

- Stockton on the Forest Primary;

- Haxby Road Primary;

- Yearsley Grove Primary;

- Park Grove Primary;

- St Lawrences Primary; and

- Osbaldwick Primary.