Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide details of (a) each mental health support team, (b) the area that each of those teams serves and (c) the number of schools and colleges that each of those teams serves.
The information is not collected in the format requested. However, details of mental health support teams (MHST) are collected by integrated care system which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/cyp/trailblazers/
On average, each MHST covers 8,000 children in approximately 10 to 20 schools and colleges, providing group and one-to-one interventions. Provision is agreed locally, with consideration given to health inequalities and disparities in the area.