PROJECT
Emotionally Healthy Schools
PURPOSE
To help schools and colleges support children and young people's emotional and mental health
FUNDING
Around £1.4m until December, from Cheshire East Public Health and two clinical commissioning groups
BACKGROUND
The December 2017 green paper Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision gives schools a leading role in early intervention, envisaging designated mental health leads in every school and "mental health support teams" serving school clusters. A similar model already operates in Cheshire East and is due to be rolled out to all 0-18 education settings there by 2020. It started in six secondary schools in 2015 as one of the government's mental health services and schools link pilots. Jonathan Potter, head of preventative services, says the authority wanted to address "mismatch" between the volume of need for mental health support in schools and the resources available.
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