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83 percent of training participants have observed an improvement in procedures for signposting to further support at their workplace.

Tackling the ‘impact of racism’ is the number one priority to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental illness, according to the findings of a national consultation conducted by the Synergi Collaborative Centre, released on World Mental Health Day 2019. 

Winning entries will be showcased in parliament this December.

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has published ‘Guess How Much We Love You: A Manifesto for Children’ ahead of any upcoming General Election. The manifesto calls on Britain’s political parties to include a six-point plan in their election manifestos to transform the life chances for disadvantaged children and to help all of England’s 12 million children to thrive.

Findings come as charities, practitioners and leading experts call for the Domestic Abuse Bill to ensure all public services ask about domestic abuse.

Over half of school staff surveyed by the mental health charity Mind have said they "feel that they do not have enough information to support pupils with poor mental health."

Charities including the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), Disability Rights and Sense have demanded the Government penalises inpatient units that fail to discharge people after a year.

Research by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy highlights the demand for school counselling services. 

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has teamed up with parents to co-produce a new animation promoting Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting (VIPP). VIPP is a preventative intervention in which the practitioner works primarily with caregivers and young children, filming interactions and making use of video-feedback.

18 to 24-year-olds are the most likely to keep their worries and concerns to themselves.

New Panorama footage showed psychological abuse, threats of violence, and intimidation experienced by people with learning disabilities and or autism.