Childhood Obesity: Yoga

Baroness Morgan of Huyton Excerpts

Thursday 21st June 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord O’Shaughnessy]

I wish the noble Lord a very happy birthday and I hope he has done his sun salutations this morning.

[Baroness Morgan of Huyton (Lab)]

My Lords, widening the conversation, when the NHS settlement is detailed in full, will the well-being of schoolchildren be looked at very carefully, particularly in relation to school nurses and the support that a lot of young people, particularly teenagers, need in schools and possibly are not getting sufficiently at the moment?

[Lord O’Shaughnessy]

The noble Baroness is quite right to raise that issue. Of course, it is something we are looking at. I also point to the pledge made in the children and young people’s mental health Green Paper to dramatically increase the number of staff on mental health support teams, which are providing not just help for children who are in crisis or having difficulties but well-being skills so that they do not experience those problems in the first place.