Choosing software for your school Mental Health Support Teams
16 December 2025
By Helen
Are you running a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) that provides mental health support to children and young people in education settings? Selecting a good digital care record system will be vital to its success.
Seven questions to ask when choosing software for MHST
- Is the system designed for children and young people’s mental health services?
- Does the system securely store digital records of the therapy interventions your team delivers?
- Can it collect data on the work you do to support the whole school approach?
- Does it support Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) working in multiple school and community locations?
- Can the system collect outcomes measures and paired scores?
- Does it support data collection and reporting to the national data set?
- How does the system enable clinicians to manage regular supervision to support EMHPs?
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iaptus is the perfect system to:
- Reflect the unique care pathways of your MHST. It guides EMHPs and admin support staff to manage their workflow and record data accurately and efficiently.
- Offer functionality to diarise clinical activity which is not directly linked to specific children and young people, supporting the Whole School Approach.
- Access notes from a computer or tablet, anywhere with internet connection.
- Record outcome measure questionnaires relevant to interventions for children and young people, such as GAD, PHQ, RCADS and CORS.
- Provide clinical supervision. Making it simple to diarise supervision, flag cases for review and record supervision notes.
- Efficiently collect the data on activity and outcomes required by NHS England and enables admin teams to easily prepare this data for submission to the MHSDS. All national dataset
updates are carried out automatically within iaptus.
"iaptus helps our services to be more efficient and provide high quality, consistent care. As a digital care record system, it offers us exactly what we need to ensure a time-efficient and streamlined workflow" - Helen McGlinchey, Director of CYP Services and Clinical Lead at Northpoint.
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