Child Mental Health Charter Campaign Manager Helen Clark is delighted to introduce a new campaigning Early Day Motion: Reform of the Mental Health Act tabled in the House of Commons on 07th June 2021 by Dr Lisa Cameron MP.
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.”
Please now write to your MP by letter or email TODAY and contact Helen Clark on helenrclark@ntlworld.com to tell us how you get on and to ask how you can help the campaign in other ways.
MPs Who Have Signed So Far…
Dr Lisa Cameron
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
[Tabled the motion]
Wera Hobhouse
Bath
[Sponsor]
Jim Shannon
Strangford
[Sponsor]
Ben Lake
Ceredigion
[Sponsor]
Christine Jardine
Edinburgh West
[Sponsor]
Andrew Rosindell
Romford
[Sponsor]
Helen Hayes
Dulwich and West Norwood
Andrew Gwynne
Denton and Reddish
Wendy Chamberlain
North East Fife
Allan Dorans
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Paul Girvan
South Antrim
Hywel Williams
Arfon
Zarah Sultana
Coventry South
Liz Saville Roberts
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Kim Johnson
Liverpool, Riverside
Tony Lloyd
Rochdale
Daisy Cooper
St Albans
Chris Stephens
Glasgow South West
Neale Hanvey
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Sammy Wilson
East Antrim
Paula Barker
Liverpool, Wavertree