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<p>Expanding access to children’s mental health services is a priority for this Government,
and a core part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Spending for children and young people’s
mental health services will grow faster than the overall spend on mental health, which
will itself be growing faster than the overall National Health Service budget.</p><p>The
NHS has set a goal of an extra 345,000 children and young people aged up to 25 years
receiving support via NHS-funded mental health services by 2023/24.</p><p>Following
on from our Green Paper, in December 2018 we launched the first 25 trailblazer sites
that will provide new school-based mental health support teams for those with mild
to moderate mental health issues. On 12 July, NHS England announced that more of these
mental health support teams are to be set up in 57 areas during 2019/20.</p>
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