Helen Clark said: ‘‘This is a very important Early Day Motion (EDM) and I am asking everyone who supports our Charter Campaign and who wants to ensure that the mental health needs of ALL  children are central to health policy and not merely an ‘add on’,  to contact their constituency MP and ask them to sign.

We are grateful to Dr Lisa Cameron MP tabling the motion; coming as it does after the announcement in the Queen’s Speech of May 11th 2021, hat a draft Mental Health  Bill will be introduced into the House of Commons in 2022 and is expected to be enacted in law by the end of this parliament. If the COVID-19 pandemic is not to be followed by an insurgent mental health crisis affecting our children that some experts have predicted will be a second pandemic, it is essential that their interests are protected by legislation in the best and most comprehensive way in the new Bill.”