Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria she used to determine which schools within each integrated care system area are prioritised to be allocated a mental health support team.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) are expected to work in collaboration with health and local system partners to determine where mental health support teams (MHSTs) are located. ICSs will consider reducing health inequalities and promoting equality of access to services and specifically how mental health support teams will reach those children and young people with high level of need and most at risk of poor outcomes; how a MHST will add to the emotional and mental health support already in place within a setting; and whether a local health provider is ready to recruit and employ staff.