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Make Mental Health Awareness lessons compulsory in all UK secondary schools

Submitted on Tuesday 8th March 2016

Rejected on Thursday 10th March 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Make Mental Health Awareness lessons compulsory in all UK secondary schools

Petition Details

Too many teenagers in schools across the UK are suffering with mental health disorders. One of the many reasons for this could be because of the lack of education about this topic. By simply teaching teenagers basic information, this could potentially save their lives and lower the statistics.

Additional Information

Some of the basic things you could educate teenagers on are:
•types of mental disorders
•how to help yourself/someone else
•emergency contact - if needed
•local support and advice

I believe this is important as the statistics are shockingly high:
•1 in 10 people have a mental health disorder.
•1 in 12 people self harm.
•Nearly 80,000 young people suffer from severe depression.
•Almost all people that committed suicide had a mental disorder.

Source:
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/policy/mental_health_statistics


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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