Mental Health Services: Schools
Commons · Question 36393 · Tabled 7 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to (a) formally recognise accredited school-based counsellors as part of the children’s mental health workforce and (b) integrate those counsellors into (i) NHS and (ii
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 18 Mar 2025
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future, we will introduce access to a specialist mental health professional in every school, through expanding NHS-funded mental health support teams, so that every young person...