Education Committee and Health and Social Care Committee

16 June 2026

Education Committee and Health and Social Care Committee House of Commons

00:05 - 00:34
Speaker 3
Order.  Welcome to this morning's joint select committee oral evidence session on our joint inquiry between the Education Select Committee and the Health and Social Care Select Committee on children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.  This is the second oral evidence session in this important inquiry, and I'd like to invite our witnesses to introduce yourselves to us this morning, starting with Professor Ellins. 
00:34 - 01:05
Speaker 6
Hi, hello.  I'm Jo Ellins.  I am Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Birmingham.  I've got over 25 years experience of policy and program evaluations in the health field.  And since 2022, with my colleague Professor Mays here, I've led two evaluations: the first of the trailblazer mental health support teams, and the current evaluation is a full impact evaluation of the Green Paper program. 
01:05 - 01:07
Speaker 1
Thank you very much.  Professor Mays next. 
01:07 - 01:29
Speaker 4
Hello.  I'm Nick Mays.  I'm a professor of health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and I have over 40 years experience of policy evaluation and also policy analysis within within government.  And as Jo said, been co-leading evaluations of the mental health support teams in schools and colleges. 

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