01/03/2024 Schools (Mental Health Professionals) Bill [HL] – Hansard – UK Parliament
PTUK were delighted to be invited for consultation with Baroness Tyler before the 2nd reading of the Schools Mental Health Professionals Bill. We now invite you…
Read More 27/02/2024 Lois Bunn, Play Therapy UK registrant & CMHC committee member, speaks at The APPG on a Fit & Healthy Childhood
APPG – The All-Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood The Impact of Lockdown on Child Health and Wellbeing On my second attendance…
Read More A Plan for Play’ report parliamentary launch event 2023
As part of our work as members of the committee for The Children's Mental Health Charter, myself and Lois Bunn contributed to the recent 'Plan…
Read More 14/03/2023 Legislative process: taking a bill through Parliament
The Bill has passed its Second Reading, which was the debate where the general principles of the Bill were discussed. Now it awaits its Committee…
Read More 01/12/22 – Child Mental Health Charter progress
We are delighted to report that recently we were approached by a researcher for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), an office…
Read More 08/08/22 – A New Start for Children’s Mental Health or ‘Business As Usual’?
On 5th September, the Conservative Party will announce the name of its new Leader and our new Prime Minister. This will be just a few…
Read More 15/07/22 – EDM brought to the House of Commons by Tony Lloyd MP
Tony Lloyd MP has tabled an Early Day Motion called "The Draft Mental Health Bill". Mental health across the UK has hit an all time…
Read More 08/07/22 – Draft Mental Health Bill: EDM (Early Day Motion) 251
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has agreed to step down but that is no reason whatsoever for the vital and historic reform of the 1983…
Read More 16/05/22 – Transforming Children And Young People’s Mental Health Implementation Programme
The Government announced its intention to introduce a draft Bill to reform the 1983 Mental Health Act in the recent Queen’s Speech list of Bills.…
Read More 10/04/22 – Letter from Will Quince MP: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, Will Quince MP has replied to Wera Hobhouse MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House and…
Read More 29/03/22 – The Child Mental Health Charter Campaign Is Holding The Government To Account!
THE CHILD MENTAL HEALTH CHARTER CAMPAIGN IS HOLDING THE GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT! The Health and Social Care Select Committee, Chaired by Jeremy Hunt MP, published…
Read More 18/03/22 – Munira Wilson’s Private Members’ Bill: Mental Heath Provision (Children and Young People)
'On Friday 18th March Munira Wilson's Private Members' Bill: 'Mental Health Provision (Children and Young People) had its Second Reading in the House of Commons. The…
Read More Children’s Mental Health Week: 7-13th February
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 comes at a time when the mental health of children and young people is discussed as never before. It will…
Read More Demystifying therapy: how play therapy can shape children’s mental health
Taken from NMT Magazine - Read the original article here.Play therapy is used to help children express what is troubling them when they do not…
Read More 2022: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH
By HELEN CLARK: DIRECTOR, CHILD MENTAL HEALTH CHARTER CAMPAIGN LEAD AUTHOR FOR THE ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON A FIT AND HEALTHY CHILDHOOD 2022 will…
Read More 06/11/21 – BBC Documentary on Counselling and Psychotherapy
‘PTUK endorses this statement provided by the PSA and are pleased that the BBC have been notified about this important matter. However, the need for…
Read More 18/10/21 – Sir David Amess MP: A Tribute
Left to right: Mary Glindon MP, Holly Lynch MP, Dani Worthington, Moorside Primary School; Sir David Amess MP, Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive, PTUK; Jeff Thomas,…
Read More 08/10/21 – Play therapy should be an integral part of Scottish education – Gwen Galbraith
The original article can be found here. When With Kids was set up 13 years ago, we had no idea that one of the biggest…
Read More 08/10/21 – World Mental Health Day: 10th October 2021
World Mental Health Day this year marks 18 months since the world-wide onslaught of Covid-19 and despite some tremendous medical and scientific advances (most notably…
Read More 06/10/21 – Daily Mirror’s Mental Health Campaign: ‘Failing Our Kids’
During the week of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, ‘The Daily Mirror’ has launched a mental health campaign, calling upon the Prime Minister to…
Read More 24/08/21 – Nursery World talks about Coronation Street episode
NURSERY WORLD ARTICLE The play therapy workforce have spoken out against comments made during an episode of Coronation Street that ‘play therapy is touchy, feely…
Read More 23/08/21 – Play therapists anger at Coronation Street episode
Very Important Information It has come to our attention that ITV aired an episode of Coronation Street on 16/08/21 at 19.30pm during which the following…
Read More 26/07/2021 – Shadow Cabinet Mental Health Minister Slams Lack Of Mental Health Service Provision For Children
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (who will lead for the Opposition when the Mental Health Reform Bill is debated at Westminster in 2022) has denounced the availability…
Read More 20/07/21 – ‘One in Eight’ Children in High Income Countries Have A Mental Health Disorder At Any Given Time
This is the terrifying conclusion of a new article published on 19th July 2021 in the BMJ Journal ‘Evidence-Based Mental Health.’ Authors of ‘Prevalence of…
Read More 24/06/21 – Number of Children on Antidepressants Rockets
By Helen Clark: Director, Child Mental Health Charter Campaign The Daily Mail’ has published figures revealing a soaring number of children prescribed antidepressants during the…
Read More 21/06/21 – National Week of Play
By Helen Clark: Director, Child Mental Health Charter Campaign The Early Years Alliance has launched a National Week of Play with the aim of encouraging…
Read More 17/06/21 – Children’s Mental Health
By Helen Clark: Director, Child Mental Health Charter Campaign This debate was called by Liberal Democrat MP, Munira Wilson. It made interesting reading and had…
Read More 07/06/21 – ‘Thousands of Children Living in Poverty have had their Mental Health ‘Crushed’ by Lockdown’ says ‘The Daily Mail’
By Helen Clark: Director, Child Mental Health Charter Campaign ‘The Daily Mail,’ (since 19th June 2020, Britain’s biggest selling daily newspaper) has revealed that more…
Read More 01/06/2021 Nicole Weinstein interviews Monika Jephcott, and Sophia O’Neill for Nursery World
Nicole Weinstein interviews Monika Jephcott, and Sophia O'Neill for Nursery World. nurseryworld.co.ukMonika Jephcott (left), chief executive of Play Therapy UK (PTUK), has spent six years lobbying the…
Read More 01/06/21 – School Closures have Damaged the Mental Health of Mothers with Children Aged 4-12 According to New Survey
By Helen Clark: Director, Child Mental Health Charter Campaign The latest findings from the regular UK Household Longitudinal Survey, ‘Understanding Society’ (Source) make worrying reading for…
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