Crushed by a Million Pressures

Our Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, said “healthy, happy children is not a nice to have, it’s a basic right”. We couldn’t agree more, so now it’s time for the Government to turn words into actions. 

• Find out how we’re asking him to make the world less heavy for young people
  1. Earning young people’s trust by delivering on his promises: Before the election, we were delighted to see Labour promise to provide early support hubs – open-access mental health services with no appointment or referral necessary - for children and young people in every community. Now it’s time to deliver on this promise.
  2. Commit to tackling problems before they begin: Poverty, discrimination and a lack of hope for the future are a heavy burden to bear. The new Government can commit to taking real action to address the pressures driving the youth mental health crisis.
  3. Pledge to end the cycle of shifting the blame and put young people’s voices at the heart of this Government: Far too often, young people are blamed for the problems they are facing – this is untrue, unfair and unhelpful. We’re asking the new Government to have honest conversations about what is impacting young people’s mental health. And to put young people's voices at the heart of the policies that affect them.

  For far too long we have seen sticking plaster after sticking plaster applied to the leaky bucket we call our mental health system.

  No more tweaks to a broken system, it’s time we throw the bucket out – We need to build something new. Something better. Something designed by young people.