Government response to children's mental health green paper 'vague'

The government's plan - as part of its ‘Next Steps' response to December 2017's children's mental health green paper - to ‘pilot' proposals to ‘create a network of support' within schools has been criticised by charity National Children's Bureau. The government's long-term plan is based on three core principles: to incentivise and support all schools and colleges to identify and train a designated senior lead for mental health; to fund new mental health support teams, supervised by NHS children and young people's mental health staff, and to pilot a four-week waiting time for access to sp...