The department for children, schools and families, has funded the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) project to plug this gap. It is JWCAs aim, to collaborate with other professionals to support its target group that needs such interventions within this project.
The current crisis in child mental health service provision across England aggravated by a cash strapped National Health Service with conflicting priorities only for a the COVID pandemic to hit ha almost crippled the service.
In the Children's commissioner's words “a chasm remains between what services are available and what children need”, this was pre-pandemic!.
It is a fact that the earlier an intervention at the first sign of mental health decline, the higher the chances of avoiding a full-blown crisis and of full recovery. 45% of ‘children looked after’ (one of the vulnerable groups) experience mental health problems.
Symptoms can be emotional, behavioral or hyperkinetic in nature. Primary prevention of mental health deterioration e.g., anxiety and depression can take place at school level and reverse the downward spiral that leads to school exclusion.
