Mental Health Services: Schools

(asked on 19th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the first set of trailblazers for mental health in schools; and whether the associated training in relation to those trailblazers will be delivered in January 2019.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 7th January 2019

We announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites on 20 December. The trailblazer sites will test out the plans previously announced in ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’, published in December 2017, creating new mental health support teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions; piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children’s mental health services; and training Designated Senior Leads in mental health in schools and colleges. There will be 59 mental health support teams across the first wave of 25 sites, covering a population of around 470,000 children and young people. The first cohort of new staff for the Support Teams, the Education Mental Health Practitioners, start training in January 2019.

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