Increase the funding for mental health support in schools.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

We’d like the government to increase the funding for mental health support so students can have trained professionals to help support them so they can feel safer and less scared to go to school.

We want the funding for mental health in schools to increase so students aren’t as worried to come to school. Students need trained professionals to be able to help them and schools aren’t getting enough money to be able to provide this. Lots of teenagers don’t feel supported enough within schools and this affects everything from their education and their home life and that’s not ok.

Why it was rejected

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

We have a number of petitions already open on the subject of mental health support in schools including this one on there being trained counsellors available for each school, which you may wish to sign:
Require every secondary school to have access to a counsellor

Other petitions you may be interested in are:
Mandate Mental Health Training for All School Staff Who Work With Children
Mandate First Aid & mental wellbeing training for all school staff
Mandate all teachers in mainstream schools receive SEN & mental health training

Timeline

6 May 2026	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jun 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jun 2026

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