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<p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets a goal of an extra 345,000 children and young people
aged 0-25 years, receiving support via NHS-funded mental health services by 2023/24.
The NHS has also committed to funding for children and young people’s mental health
services growing as a proportion of all mental health funding for the first time,
which will itself grow faster than funding for the NHS overall.</p><p>Our Green Paper,
‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’
sets out how we plan to increase the availability of support for children and young
people, by reaching them in schools or colleges through:</p><p>- incentivising every
school or college to identify and train a senior mental health lead;</p><p>- creating
new mental health support teams in and near schools and colleges; and</p><p>- piloting
a four-week waiting time to ensure swifter access to specialist NHS mental health
services for those who need it.</p><p> </p>
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