schools are also expected to promote good mental health for students and remain alert to mental health concerns nice public health recommendation nice for example offers guidelines on social and emotional wellbeing in primary education stating that schools and local authorities should make sure teachers and other staff are trained to identify when children at school show signs of anxiety or social and emotional problems they should be able to discuss the problems with parents and carers and develop a plan to deal with them involving specialists where needed the targeted mental health in schools tamhs initiative which ran between and was backed with gbp million of funding from the department for children schools and families the programme aimed to tackle emotional and mental health support delivery in schools for children aged to and was found to have had mixed results at the end of the threeyear programme