The government's green paper on children's mental health, published in December 2017, contains a series of measures aimed at boosting support in schools.
A key proposal, backed with £215m of Department for Education and Department of Health funding, is to create new "mental health support teams" aimed at improving joint working between schools and local child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
The teams will provide a wide range of support and treatments in or near schools and colleges, tackling problems earlier and speeding up referrals to CAMHS.
The government says several thousand people will be recruited over the next five years to form the teams, which could be trained to offer cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and other treatments.
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