Member

I know that the Schools Wellbeing Partnership, with which I have worked on this amendment and on this issue more widely, has sent my noble friend and her officials a briefing outlining how statutory guidance on whole-school approaches to mental health and well-being can be delivered. I will not rehearse that, but I will say only that all elements are achievable using existing guidance, training and data sources, so it would create minimal additional burdens for government and schools. It would provide a statutory framework for work that is already encouraged and is widely but unevenly delivered, as I said. But encouragement will not complete the coverage that is required; only statutory guidance will achieve that.