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Guidance for professionals in Gloucestershire working with young people with mental health or emotional wellbeing concerns
Contents
Dear Mental Health Support Team – a letter from a young person 7
Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Operating Principles 13
1.1 What is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST)? 16
1.3 Core functions of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 17
2.1 Understanding the school and college landscape 19
2.2 The role of schools and colleges 21
2.3 What is a whole school/college approach? 22
Figure 3. DfE: school/college roles in mental health and wellbeing 24
Identifying need and monitoring impact 25
Enabling Student Voice – children and young people involvement in design and approach 27
Working with parents and carers 27
2.4 The Role of Local Authorities and Regional School Commissioners 28
Regional schools commissioners: 29
3 Delivering the core functions 31
Identifying and understanding the needs of children, young people, and their families and carers 33
Further assessment by Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 34
Components of a good assessment 36
4 Monitoring Outcomes and Impact 40
4.2 Routine collection of outcomes of evidence based interventions 41
Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) 43
Senior Mental Health Clinicians 43
5.2 Mental health roles in education settings 45
School/ college MHST coordinator 45
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 47
Training for education professionals 47
Training for pupils, students, parents and carers 47
6 Governance, Accountability and Senior Leadership of the Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 50
6.1 Governance and Oversight 50
Case Study Examples Governance Structures: 51
Please note this is place marker for additional content providing case study 51
examples of good governance structures. 51
7 Developing and implementing the Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 52
7.1.1 How to ensure genuine co-production 53
7.2 Understanding the needs of the local population and education setting 53
7.3 Accessing Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) 54
Location of Mental Health Support Teamss 55
7.4 Information sharing, confidentiality and consent 55
7.6 Utilising digital resources 56
7.7 Support for transitions 57
8 Addressing disadvantage, inequalities and need 58
8.1 Advancing mental health equality, and narrowing health inequalities and disadvantage 58
8.2 Strategies to proactively advance mental health equality 59
9 Learning from the Trailblazers 60
11 How was this document developed? 62
Expert Reference Group members 62
Young people and carer reference group 62
