Students: Mental Health

(asked on 8th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote mental health amongst students.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 16th May 2018

Mental health is a priority for this government. The Children and Young People’s Mental Health green paper, published on 4 December 2017, outlined the government’s plans to set up a new national strategic partnership focused on improving the mental health of 16 to 25 year olds. One recommendation in the green paper is for the partnership to improve awareness and early intervention for students.

As independent organisations, it is for each higher education institution to determine which welfare and counselling services they need to provide for their students. There is, however, much work underway to improve the provision of mental health services for students alongside services provided by the NHS. Universities UK’s Step Change programme has been developed to support higher education senior teams to adopt a whole university approach to mental health: http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/stepchange/Pages/framework.aspx.

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