Is mental health important in Manx schools?

Private schools aren't forced to adopt every guideline set out by government

It's Children's Mental Health Week and we're looking at private education on the Island and mental health within these schools.

Speaking in Tynwald recently, Health Minister Lawrie Hooper said young people on the Island were waiting an average of seven months for an initial assessment.

Public schools don't receive financial support from government and are entirely independent which means they are left to their own devices to provide wellbeing services.

So with this extra freedom to pick and choose guidelines best suited to their pupils, is this a blessing in disguise or could it create more room for error?

Manx Radio's Christian Jones went to King William's College to understand the complexities better: