Schools: Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent mental health support her Department has provided within schools for pupils in Slough.
Answered by Olivia Bailey
41% of schools and colleges in Slough constituency were supported by an NHS-funded Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in March 2025. Data on the coverage of MHSTs in England in 2024/25 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision. This has been available since 16 May 2025 at national, regional and local authority level and at constituency level since 10 July 2025.
Data on MHST coverage is collected annually, as part of the government’s commitment to expand MHSTs to every school, so every child and young person has access to early support to address problems before they escalate.
Around six in ten pupils nationally are expected to have access to an MHST by March 2026.
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