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<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 through school or college. There are three key
proposals:</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>In December
2018 we announced the first 25 ‘trailblazer’ sites that will implement the proposals
to provide the new schools/college-based service, 12 of which will also pilot a four-week
waiting time. This first wave of mental health support teams will be fully operational
by the end of 2019, reaching over 1,000 schools and colleges. We are currently in
the process of selecting sites for the 2019/20 wave of trailblazers.</p><p>Through
the NHS Long Term Plan the National Health Service has set a goal of an extra 345,000
children and young people, aged 0-25, receiving support via NHS-funded mental health
services by 2023/24.</p>
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