The government’s Green Paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provisions’ (Department of Health and Department of Education, 2017) sets out the ambition that children and young people who need help for their mental health should be able to get it when they need it. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) recognised that with a decline in young people’s physical, social and emotional wellbeing, there has never been a more important time to take a proactive approach, initiating the Greater Manchester Mentally Healthy Schools Rapid Pilot.
Focusing on earlier intervention and prevention of poor mental health, proposals outlined in the Green Paper included incentivising schools to identify and train a designated senior lead for mental health, and also offering training to help leads and staff to deliver a whole-school approach to promoting mental health. Another aim was to fund new ‘Mental Healthy Support Teams’ supervised b
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