Labour Pledges Mental Health Support for Lockdown Generation

Wes Streeting said that children and young people ’saw their mental health corrupted by lockdown' and that the nation owed it to them to help.
Labour Pledges Mental Health Support for Lockdown Generation
A young girl paints a picture of herself on the school window as children of key workers take part in school activities at Oldfield Brow Primary School in Altrincham, England, during the first COVID-19 lockdown on April 8, 2020. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Labour says Britain owes a debt to the lockdown generation which has seen its future “cut off at the knees,” with the shadow health secretary pledging to improve mental health services to children and young people.

Writing in The Telegraph on Friday, Wes Streeting said Labour will recruit thousands of extra mental health professionals, providing support in “every school” and putting walk-in mental health hubs for young people “in every community,” if Labour wins the election on July 4.