The training of teachers to become senior mental health leads in schools was first mooted in the government’s 2017 green paper on transforming young people’s mental health provision.
The paper said ministers aimed to see a quarter of schools with mental health leads by 2023.
However, at an evidence session with the government’s health and social care committee, Emma Thomas, chief executive of children’s mental health charity YoungMinds said the training of such teachers had not yet started, adding that the tender was paused in January last year, before the pandemic hit.
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