Children’s mental health must be cared for. Or the consequences will be dire | Paul Burstow

While one in 10 children and young people has a treatable mental illness just one in four receives treatment

The chancellor tells us that he is putting into law the obligation to generate budget surpluses in the “interests of our children”. But the axing of funding for children’s mental health in the service of economic dogma will condemn a generation of young people to a life of misery for want of the right mental health support in their early years.

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