The government pledged a raft of children's mental health services improvements as part of December 2017 green paper Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health, backed with £300m in extra funding.
This included appointing a designated senior mental health lead in every school and college, creating mental health support teams linked to groups of education settings and introducing a four-week maximum waiting time for access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
But a joint report by the health and social care and education select committees criticised the proposals for not being swift enough, being only available in some areas and for not taking into account financial pressures facing schools and health organisations.
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