Submitted on Friday 17th July 2020
Rejected on Thursday 23rd July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Mental health teaching/understanding to be mandatory in schools
Fund the education system with means for schools to expand their curricular in mental health
Also make it so that mental health teaching is mandatory in all schools.
There should be more information available to parents I.e. leaflets and newsletters
A designated mental health advisor in schools
There should be a deeper understanding of mental health taught in school, with open lines of communication from schools with support for parents of those struggling with their mental health. Also, more information should be provided on the help that is available to those who are, or who believe they are, struggling with their mental health so that we can all tackle mental health effectively and appropriately.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Education about physical health and mental wellbeing is already part of the Department for Education's statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education, which forms part of the national curriculum: www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-personal-social-health-and-economic-pshe-and-relationships-and-sex-education-rse. RSE education will be compulsory from September 2020.
You may however wish to sign these petitions instead:
Make mental health and wellbeing checks compulsory in all levels of education: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331616
Fund more support for mental health: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300585
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