Just before Parliament was dissolved, the formal pistol-fire for the General Election campaign, the cross-party Education and Health Select Committees hurriedly released a joint report.
It revealed how budget cuts mean an increasing number of schools have already reduced their mental health support for their pupils (Mental health: Funding cuts hampering vital frontline school services, SecEd, May 2017: http://bit.ly/2psgVRg).
This is at a time when the need is growing sharply and despite the clear evidence of the key role schools and colleges have in promoting young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Without adequate time to take all of the 280–plus pieces of submitted written evidence into account, it calls on the next government to ensure the inquiry continues, building on the wealth of evidence it has gathered so far.
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