The NHS plans to raid its own budgets to keep funding mental health support teams in schools after government funding runs out, a senior health official has said.
The teams help pupils with mild to moderate mental health problems, hitting a target for 35 per cent coverage across the country and reaching 26 per cent of pupils.
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this week that NHS budgets, which include funding for the teams, have been set up to March 2024. About 500 teams are expected to be operational by then.
But it said that budgets for the 2024-25 financial year were still to be agreed.
