In March, former Liberal Democrat care minister Norman Lamb launched Future in Mind, a policy document outlining the government's commitment to improve child mental health services over the next five years, backed by an extra £1.25bn for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Details of how the money will be spent has been drip fed since the election and at the end of last month, childcare minister Sam Gyimah used an appearance at the youth select committee to profess his desire to develop a mental health peer mentoring programme in schools.
Gyimah told the committee - a group of young people supported by the House of Commons and which this year will focus its work on youth mental health services - how struck he was by their understanding of the unique pressures young people face.
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