When, at the beginning of January, the NHS Long Term Plan announced that an extra £2.3 billion will be spent on mental health care every year, you could sense a collective sigh of relief from teachers.
School staff know all too well that there is a rising tide of children and young people with mental health issues. They see the pupils falling behind; they see the absences; they see the distress. And they see at first hand the difficulty in accessing professional help beyond the school gates.
The discrepancy between the numbers needing help and the capacity of children and young people’s mental health services in the community is hard to ignore.
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