Browsing: Mental Health

Dr Kate Martinis encouraged by the new network of community clinics, while Prof Dr John R Ashton says the forthcoming mental health strategy is an opportunity to grasp the nettle, while Marjorie Wallace expresses concerns about plans to cut mental health jobs in the NHS

What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The lawmakers sent the secretary a letter last week asking questions about the state of VA care, citing a ProPublica investigation…

Schools have never been places where children only learn to read, write and count. They are also places where young people learn how to belong, cope, relate, fail, recover and grow. Long before the term “student well-being” became common in policy documents, several educational pioneers were already challenging the idea that children’s emotional lives could…