Isle of Wight schools to benefit from new mental health service | Isle of Wight County Press
The Island's mental health support team. A PILOT service that currently supports the wellbeing of young people aged 5 to 19 in eight Island schools, will expand to all schools from next year. The Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Barnardo’s and the Isle of Wight Youth Trust have been working in partnership to deliver the new UK Government initiative in England, Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools and colleges across the Island. The service was launched locally in January 2021 and in its initial development phase, it is working with four primary host schools and four secondary host sc...