{"id":86987,"date":"2017-12-04T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f2eb555cd4ae6fe6435f80fbb96424fd"},"modified":"2017-12-04T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:36:00","slug":"news-story-government-proposals-on-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=86987","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government proposals on children and young people&#8217;s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper\">published proposals to improve mental health support for children and young people in England.<\/a> Over \u00a3300 million has been made available to fund them.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/engage.dh.gov.uk\/youngmentalhealth\/\">The government is asking people for their views on the planned measures, which are set out in a green paper.<\/a> The measures include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>encouraging every school and college to have a \u2018designated senior mental health lead\u2019<\/li>\n<li>setting up mental health support teams working with schools, to give children and young people earlier access to services<\/li>\n<li>piloting a 4-week waiting time for NHS children and young people\u2019s mental health services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This short video describes the main proposals in the green paper.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o3MFF6ZtgIs\">Children and young people\u2019s mental health green paper video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other proposals in the green paper include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a new working group to look at mental health support for 16 to 25-year-olds<\/li>\n<li>a report by the Chief Medical Officer on the impact that technology has on children and young people\u2019s mental health, to be produced in 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consultation on the green paper will run for 13 weeks until 2 March 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ways for schools and colleges to support pupils&#8217; mental health are set out in a green paper, as well as plans for new mental health support teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}