24. The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people remains a priority for the Government, both in responding to the current pressures felt by the pandemic and in the longer term. 25. The Government remains committed to our green paper delivery programme, which includes introducing new Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) linked to schools and colleges, incentivising all schools and colleges to identify and train a senior mental health lead, and testing approaches to faster access to specialist NHS mental health support. 26. MHSTs are intended to provide early intervention on mild to moderate issues, as well as helping staff within a school or college setting to provide a ‘whole school approach’ to mental health and wellbeing. There are now over 280 MHSTs set up or in training, which will deliver the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to reach 20 – 25% of pupils in England a year early in 2022. In March 2021, we announced a £79million to boost children and young people’s mental health support, which will increase the number of MHSTs in schools and colleges to cover around 35% of pupils in England by 2023. 27. We have also announced £9.5 million funding for the 2021/22 academic year, for up to 7,800 schools and colleges in England to train a senior mental health lead, as part of our commitment to offer this to all state schools and colleges by 2025. The training will equip senior mental health leads with the knowledge and skills to introduce or develop their setting’s approach to mental health and wellbeing and to implement effective processes for ensuring pupils and students with mental health problems receive appropriate support.