Asked by: Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress is being made in implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health recommendation that her Department establish an expert group to examine the needs of children vulnerable to developing mental health problems and how their needs should be met, including through provision of personalised budgets.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department of Health and the Department for Education have established an Expert Working Group to ensure that the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of children and young people in care, those adopted from care or under a Special Guardianship Order and care leavers are better met. The group is due to report in October.