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Mental health pledge welcomed, but funding fears remain strong

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The prime minister’s pledge to transform mental health services and provision will hand a key role and responsibility to schools. The focus has been welcomed, but fears about funding are already apparent. Pete Henshaw reports

Questions have been raised this week over just how much funding schools and mental health services are to receive in order to deliver on prime minister Theresa May’s mental health promises.

Last week, Ms May repeated pledges first made when she entered Downing Street last year to transform the way we deal with mental health, which she said was a “hidden injustice” in our country.

Speaking at the Charity Commission, the prime minister set out her intention to give schools a clear role in helping to spot and tackle mental health problems in young people.

Research has shown that 75 per cent of all mental health difficulties originate during adolescence, including 50 per cent by the age of 15.

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