Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Mental Health Support Teams there were in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London in each year since 2010.

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are now in place in approximately 6,800 schools and colleges across the country, with 398 expert teams offering support to children experiencing mental health issues. Further information can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1156762/Transforming_CYPMH_implementation_programme__data_release_May_2023.pdf. MHSTs have achieved their NHS Long Term Plan coverage ambition a year early and over 500 MHSTs will be up and running by April 2024.

Data on the roll out of MHSTs is available from 2018/19, when the first wave of ‘Trailblazer’ teams was commissioned.

Data from NHS England shows that as of March 2023, 76 MHSTs are currently up and running in the NHS England London region, rising to 87 teams by April 2024. This has steadily increased from 15 teams in the Trailblazer wave in 2018/19. A link to the data and more information can be found here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/cyp/trailblazers/#_Mental_Health_Support. Data on the number of MHSTs is currently only available at Integrated Care System level and not at local authority or constituency level. The London Borough of Enfield sits within the North Central London Integrated Care System, which has 16 MHSTs. A full breakdown of the growth in MHSTs across London is below and further information can be found here: https://nclhealthandcare.org.uk/about/your-area/enfield/.