Add Child Mental Health as a mandatory module to Teaching Degrees in the UK

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

A module on understanding child mental health should be mandatory study for education degrees. Also be able to take a specialism on the subject to provide schools with staff who can help families with children who need mental health support. "I'm not a mechanic, but I know how to change a tyre"

With no support from schools, families must rely on waiting months for support from backlogged CAHMS and Pediatric depts. This results in miscommunication with schools about attendance and behaviour. Schools say there is no funding available to hire specialists.
1 in 6 school-aged children has a mental health problem(NHS 2020). Pupils who have a mental health problem are more likely to be excluded from school than their peers.(DfE, 2016) There were 26 likely child suicides in 2020(ONS 2020)

Why it was rejected

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

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Timeline

30 Sep 2021	Petition opened for signatures
5 Oct 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Oct 2021

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