Media captionTheresa May: “If you suffer from mental health problems, there"s not enough help to hand” Plans to “transform” attitudes to mental health, with a focus on children and young people, have been announced by Theresa May.
Additional training for teachers, an extra £15m for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM.
Mental health experts said more funding was needed to improve services.
Mrs May"s speech comes as she outlined her plans to use the state to create a “shared society”.
The government says, at any time, one in four people has a mental disorder, with an annual cost of £105bn.
Figures show young people are affected disproportionately with over half of mental health problems starting by the age of 14 and 75% by 18.
The prime minister said mental health had been “dangerously disregarded” as secondary to physical health and changing that will go “right to the heart of our humanity”.
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