Children And Young People Still Struggling To Get Mental Health Support, Despite Greater Awareness - just 6% of parents said they found it easy to get support for their children. Click here to read more
Children should be taught Buddhist meditation techniques and yoga in schools to help them "unplug from their online world", a minister has said. Edward Timpson, an education minister, said that schools across the country should start teaching "mindfulness" as a…
The Government has pledged a total of £1.7 billion to promoting, protecting and improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The Local Government Association, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, is calling for 5 per cent of…
More than four-in-10 school leaders struggle to know what type of mental health support is needed for their pupils, a survey has found. The poll also revealed that more than a third of counsellors and psychotherapists report difficulty in providing their…
Dear Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, I am writing to you on behalf of YoungMinds to respond to the consultation on Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper. YoungMinds is the…
The government is asking people for their views on a green paper setting out measures to improve mental health support for children and young people. The green paper focuses on earlier intervention and prevention, especially in and linked to schools…