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Mental wellbeing ‘crucial’ to recovery planning

by The Editorial Team

People’s mental wellbeing will play a crucial role in every aspect of recovery planning, the LGA has said in a new joint report with the Centre for Mental Health.

Categories news Tags mental health, public health
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Improving children’s mental health

by The Editorial Team

New research sets out the challenges of delivering better outcomes for children and young people – and how councils can mitigate these by acting early to resolve issues before they escalate.

Categories features Tags children, mental health
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Children’s mental health cases up by over half

by The Editorial Team

Councils are seeing more than 560 cases of children with mental health disorders every day – an increase of more than 50 per cent in just four years.

Categories news Tags children, mental health
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New proposals on preventing mental illness

by The Editorial Team

Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged extra funding for councils to help develop and strengthen their suicide prevention plans, as part of a wider prevention plan on mental health.

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Drop in spending on children’s mental health

by The Editorial Team

More than a third of local areas in England have reduced real-terms spending on ‘low-level’ children’s mental health services, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner for England.

Categories news Tags children, mental health

Young minds

by The Editorial Team

Increased funding and improved crisis care were among the pledges for children and young people’s mental health services in the NHS’s recently published Long Term Plan.

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