Mental Health Services: Schools
(asked on 17th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that there are professional mental health teams linked to schools.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Children and young people are benefitting from the extra funding we are putting into National Health Service mental health services under the NHS Long Term Plan. This will see an additional £2.3 billion a year by March 2024 for all mental health services and will help an extra 345,000 children and young people up to the age of 25 access NHS mental health services by 2023/24.
398 mental health support teams are now operational, covering 3.4 million pupils and learners in England in 6,800 schools and colleges. Over 500 are planned to be up and running by 2024.