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As part of a national programme launched in 2019, two mental health support teams (MHSTs) have been providing one-to-one and group therapy, either online or in person on school premises across two thirds of Reading.
Claire Thomas, a senior educational psychologist at Brighter Futures for Children, the non-profit organisation running children’s services for Reading Borough Council, explains that the service will be extended to cover all schools by the end of the next academic year.
This will see three teams of four education mental health practitioners (EMHPs), each supervised by a senior educational psychologist, cover a population of around 8,000 primary and secondary school children.
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