Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that speech and language therapists are included in the trailblazer areas anticipated in the Green Paper Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision, published on 25 July.

We will seek to use the trailblazer programme as the opportunity to link mental health support teams within schools and colleges, with the range of professionals already working with young people, including speech and language therapists where appropriate. The design of the new mental health support teams should in particular enable better joint working between health and education services, as well as working with other services.