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<p>The Department for Education remains committed to long term improvements to support
children and young people’s mental health, set out in the government’s response to
its Green Paper and NHS Long Term Plan. This includes the roll-out of mental health
support teams and the provision of training for Senior Leads for Mental Health in
schools and colleges.</p><p>As part of this, we are producing evidence about what
works to support mental health and wellbeing in schools, so that they can make evidence-based
decisions about how to best support their pupils’ mental health and wellbeing. The
department is funding a large-scale programme of randomised control trials of mental
health interventions in schools. The aim of this programme is to provide robust evidence
on what works to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and
whether programmes can be delivered effectively in a school setting.</p><p>The programme
is testing the effectiveness of 5 different approaches to supporting pupil mental
health and wellbeing in primary and secondary schools across England. It includes
a programme of brief mindfulness-based exercises to be run by teachers in the classroom,
which provides teachers with a short training session and materials to run brief mindfulness-based
exercises with their classes.</p><p>The government has not made an assessment of the
effectiveness of mindfulness in colleges and universities. It is for higher education
providers as autonomous bodies to identify and address the needs of their student
body and decide what mental health and wellbeing support to put in place.</p>
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