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Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on delivering specialist mental health professionals in every school.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
6 Nov 2024
Answer
11 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on delivering specialist mental health professionals in every school.

  2. 6 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 11 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Department of Health and Social Care is working with the Department for Education and NHS England to consider how to deliver our manifesto commitment of providing access to a specialist mental health professional in every school. We need to ensure any...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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