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Petition · past parliament

Teach Mental Health and Useful Life Skills in schools and make it compulsory.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

Young people are very vulnerable to mental health and often do not know who to reach out to or how to cope with it, but many also don't know what it is, which is why it would be important for this to become compulsory.
Life skills like bill paying etc. should also be taught to make doing it easier.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Start teaching children in schools about mental health (Mental health)

Educate students about mortgages/taxes/life skills etc in college/high school (Life skills)

Timeline

14 Sep 2016 Petition opened for signatures
15 Sep 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15
Status Rejected
Rejected 15 Sep 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.