Early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme: a rapid mixed-methods study

Early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme: a rapid mixed-methods study The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme is funding the creation of new mental health support teams (MHSTs) to work in schools and further education colleges. MHSTs directly support children and young people with ‘mild to moderate’ mental health problems and work with school and college staff to promote wellbeing for all. A new workforce of education mental health practitioners (EMHPs) is being trained for the teams. This early evaluation of the Trailblazer programme examines the development, implementation and early progress of MHSTs in the programme’s first 25 ‘Trailblazer’ sites. National Institute for Health and Care Research