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Act now to ensure childhood mental health problems don't 'blight a life'

Health Viewpoint
Helen Clark explains why new mental health legislation for children should be made a priority and how readers can get behind it.

Brexit will be settled one way or another, but mental health problems stemming from childhood can blight a life.

I’m asking Nursery World readers to write to their MP as of urgency and ask them to sign an Early Day Motion (EDM) for new mental health legislation for children.

On 8 April, Steve McCabe MP, chair of the All Party Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, tabled a Motion (EDM 2285) at Westminster for new mental health legislation for children, which asks the Prime Minister to honour her pledge to include a new Mental Health Bill in the 2019 Queen's Speech.

Ask your MP to sign EDM 2285 and make 2019 the year in which a new Mental Health Act prioritises children’s needs.

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