The Department for Education should produce guidance for schools on the implementation of good emotional health for children, a new report has urged.
A shift towards supporting children to understand emotional health from a young age could prevent NHS England spending £36.7bn on mental health services by 2040, finds the research by the Centre for Emotional Health and think tank Demos.
It argues that the government has “no effective plan to address the mental health and wellbeing challenges we are seeing in the UK”.
Recent research from the Children’s Mental Health Coalition finds that an estimated three quarters of young people in need of support face delays getting help, which is worsening their mental health.
