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<p>We are setting up new Mental Health Support Teams to deliver mental health interventions
for those with mild to moderate needs in or close to schools and colleges, referring
those with more severe needs on to specialist services. The teams will support and
join up with existing professionals such as educational psychologists, school nurses
and health visitors. We expect the teams to comprise a mix of more junior and more
senior staff; there will be funding available to support the teams and will also support
the cost of supervision from qualified staff in National Health Service children’s
mental health services. There will also be a new role, Educational Mental Health Practitioner,
with the recruitment for this role currently underway and 210 places available across
the country.</p><p> </p><p>There are no ready-made answers about the overall make-up
of teams and how they should operate, and we are clear that we do not want to impose
a model that does not take account of the existing local context. It will therefore
be important to design national roll-out on the basis of the experience from the trailblazer
programme. The trailblazer sites will be announced shortly.</p>
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