Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the term child practitioner is used exclusively to refer to Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioners.

Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioners assess and support children and young people with mental health problems, improving their access to therapies. They play a key role in signposting children and young people to appropriate mental health and community services and referring those with more complex problems to the right mental health support.

The term child practitioner is an education term, used for support within education services. It is not recognised by the central NHS Workforce Team as a National Health Service job title, although it may be used colloquially in some local situations.