The government’s Green Paper, Transforming children and young people’s mental health provisions (Department of Health, Department of Education, 2017), sets out the ambition that children and young people who need help for their mental health are able to get it, when they need it.
In response to this, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) wanted to take a proactive approach, focusing on earlier intervention and prevention of poor mental health.
Last September, phase one of the Greater Manchester Mentally Healthy Schools Rapid Pilot involving 31 primary and secondary mainstream schools, special schools and PRUs, was launched.
The schools were recruited by Alliance for Learning Teaching School and the success of the scheme has meant that a second phase involving 64 schools began in January this year. A third phase has also been announced to include 125 schools, colleges and PRUs, almost doubling the project in size.
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