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Targeted Mental Health in Schools pilot areas announced: Better support for emotional wellbeing in schools
The Government has announced the 25 local authorities that will begin the Targeted Mental Health in Schools project. Each local authority and corresponding Primary Care Trusts will work with between three and six secondary schools, as well as their feeder or associated primary schools, to deliver better support for those children who are at risk or are already experiencing mental ill health. The local authorities include: Luton, Norfolk, Suffolk, Leicester City, Lincolnshire, Hackney, Merton, Southwark, Gateshead, Northumberland, Sunderland, Blackburn & Darwen, Blackpool, Bury, Brighton and Hove, Kent, Reading, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, Coventry, Shropshire, Wolverhampton, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Cornwall. Minister for Young People, Kevin Brennan said: "Good mental health and wellbeing are crucial to ensuring that all our children and young people can learn, achieve and fulfil their potential. Early detection and intervention through schools and nurseries is vital in doing this. "Each pilot will be implementing innovative ways to ensure a better service to some of their most vulnerable children and families and their success will inform the national roll–out of this project." The schools, who have all chosen to be involved in the pilots, will develop innovative approaches to mental health support, bringing together professionals and relevant services to ensure holistic help and support is easily accessible to those children and their families who need it most. The pilots will be evaluated to identify successful models of mental health support and the findings will inform the roll–out of Targeted Mental Health in Schools nationally in 2009–10 and 2010–11. For further information email the Department for Children, Schools and Families at: info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk. Website: www.dcsf.gov.uk. From your browser | Email the page | Email the page link | Print the page | Add page to favourites ········································································································································
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