New government advice highlights the route to CAMHS – but schools portray CAMHS as a service in crisis. What can we do to help pupils struggling with their mental health? Suzanne O’Connell reports.

"In order to help their pupils succeed, schools have a role to play in supporting them to be resilient and mentally healthy. There are a variety of things that schools can do, for all their pupils and for those with particular problems, to offer that support in an effective way.”

The above is taken from Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools (key point 1, page 5), a guidance document released in June by the Department for Education (DfE). It outlines how schools can identify, intervene, refer and commission. It provides case studies and good practice examples for schools trying to address pupils’ unmet mental health needs.

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