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The mental health crisis facing Gen Z

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Lockdown has seen the social way of life, vital to sustaining our mental equilibrium, sacrificed

Mental health ‘missing’ from Covid response

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"All the evidence shows people subjected to conversion therapy experience long-lasting mental health problems and many of them need support but don’t get it."

Panel to discuss harms of ‘conversion therapy’ in UK’s religious communities

The harms of ‘conversion therapy’ and the extent to which it is still practised in religious communities across the UK will be discussed at an event in London this week.

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The unspoken dangers of a suicide prevention strategy

The government wins praise for appointing the first suicide prevention minister, but the current policies in place risk reviving Victorian practice to deal with mental health issues.

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Next-level failure: Cannabis laws are now criminalising the children they’re intended to help

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"We are ready to work with the Government to make sure that high quality supported housing is available for all those who need it"

Rethink Mental Illness responds to Government decision to drop disastrous reforms of supported housing

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Rethink Mental Illness response to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act interim report

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"Being detained under Mental Health Act shouldn’t mean that you lose your dignity"

Rethink Mental Illness publishes new report on experiences of detention under the Mental Health Act

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"This is a clear example of where practice under the Act is badly out of date."

Rethink Mental Illness responds to new report on the Mental Health Act

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"The report’s recommendations are an important first step in ensuring that we have a disability benefits system that supports, rather than damages, people affected by mental illness"

Rethink Mental Illness response to disability benefits benefit assessments report

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"One constant throughout has been the long-running and severely neglected mental health crisis in our prisons."

Out of sight, out of mind: The prison mental health crisis

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Teacher stress and well-being

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"Often teachers can be the first to spot signs of mental distress among their pupils"

NASUWT comments on the prime minister’s statement on mental health support for children and young people

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Improving the mental health system

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A Place to Call Home – mental health and the supported housing issue

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More support needed for work-related mental health issues

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Proposed cut to disability benefits will keep people with disabilities out of the workplace

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Why it’s vital MPs have an understanding of mental health problems...

Why it’s vital MPs have an understanding of mental health problems…

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Urgent action needed to reduce stress faced by teachers

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