Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the proposed composition of the national leadership board for children and young people with high needs set out in the green paper Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision.

One of the key recommendations of the independent review of special residential schools and colleges, Good Intentions, Good Enough?, was for a new National Leadership Board for children and young people with high needs, reporting to my hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families. We have invited Dame Christine Lenehan and Mark Geraghty, who conducted the review, to sit on the board; and will confirm the other members in due course.