Question follow-through · 18868
Mental Health Services: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health professionals the previous Government planned to be placed in schools in each of the next three academic years; and how many he plans to place in schools in the same period.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Mental Health: Children and Young People · 3 Jan 2025
- Mental Health Services: Children and Young People · 3 Jan 2025
- Social Services: Finance · 17 Mar 2025
- Mental Health Services: Schools · 29 Apr 2025
- Hospitals: Basingstoke · 14 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health professionals the previous Government planned to be placed in schools in each of the next three academic years; and how many he plans to place in schools in the same period.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Nationally, there are, on average, 8,400 pupils or learners and 17 schools or colleges per mental health support team (MHST), up to and including waves seven and eight. There are 109 MHSTs that will become part of the programme in waves nine and 10, with ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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