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威斯敏斯特辯論中強調關於學校咨詢的好處
BACP新聞
我們向議員們介紹了我們的運動，以確保為英國每所學校的註冊輔導員提供資金，以及在世界心理健康日舉行的威斯敏斯特關於心理健康支持的辯論之前，建立青年未來中心的必要性。
在辯論中，來自不同政黨的議員承認，對心理健康支持的需求普遍增加，等待時間過長加劇了人們的痛苦。
政府宣言承諾
我們在辯論前見過工黨議員Sojan Joseph，他在英國國家醫療服務體系擔任心理健康護士長達22年。他利用這場辯論質疑新政府在履行其宣言承諾方面的進展，即資助每所學校的專業心理健康專業人員。
他詢問這壹承諾是否包括獲得咨詢，並引用了我們的研究：
“兒童的心理健康問題最初過於復雜，無法進行低強度幹預，但不夠復雜，無法轉介到高強度幹預，如兒童和青少年心理健康服務，他們很容易錯過所需的心理健康支持。他們可以通過咨詢等形式獲得幫助。”
“Children whose mental health difficulties are initially too complex for lower intensity interventions but not complex enough to be referred to higher intensity interventions, such as child and adolescent mental health services, can easily miss out on the mental health support they need. They could instead be helped by forms of provision such as counselling.”
他還要求提供政府為兒童和青少年建立青年未來中心的最新計劃，這是BACP長期以來壹直在宣傳的壹個問題，他說：
“這些開放接入的救助中心將是為兒童和青少年提供基於社區的心理健康支持的重要壹步。他會對這些中心的推出發表意見嗎？”
“These open-access drop-in hubs will be an important step in providing community-based mental health support for children and young people. Will he say something about the roll-out of those hubs?”
跨黨派支持
他與Epsom和Ewell的自由民主黨議員Helen Maguire在談到早期幹預對年輕人的好處時獲得了跨黨派的支持，她說：
“太多的人只是在受苦，太多的生命正在逝去，但其中壹些是可以預防的。早期幹預和預防是絕對關鍵。首先，為了確保我們的年輕人在達到危機點之前得到他們需要的支持，我們需要為他們提供所需的工具，以建立應對現代生活的韌性。我們必須確保沒有人在心理健康之旅中感到孤獨。”
“Too many people are simply suffering and too many lives are being lost, yet some of that is preventable. Early intervention and prevention are absolutely key. First, to ensure that our young people get the support they need before they reach crisis point, we need to equip them with the tools they need to build resilience to cope with modern life. We must ensure that no one feels alone in their mental health journey.”
蓋茨黑德中央和Whickham的工黨議員Mark Ferguson提請註意Darzi勛爵上個月發布的關於NHS現狀的報告中的建議，他說：
“社區服務無法滿足兒童和青少年心理健康需求的激增，達爾齊勛爵的報告發現，經過多年的削減，心理健康護士的數量才剛剛恢復到2010年的水平。
“The surge in demand in respect of mental health needs in children and young people is not being met by community-based services, and Lord Darzi’s report found that after years of cuts the number of mental health nurses has only just returned to 2010 levels.
“這就是為什麽我們需要為社區和學校的兒童提供更多支持，但不要繼續讓教師負擔過重。我歡迎政府承諾在社區的每所學校和心理健康中心推出心理健康顧問，以減少積壓並確保獲得支持。”
“That is why we need more support for children in their communities and schools, but without continuing to overstretch teachers. I welcome the Government’s commitment to roll out mental health counsellors in every school and mental health hubs in the community, to cut through the backlog and ensure accessible support.”
為社區兒童提供更多支持
負責衛生和社會關懷的議會副部長Andrew Gwynne議員代表政府回應說：
“我們致力於改革英國國家醫療服務體系，以確保我們對心理健康和身體健康給予同等的關註和重視。太多的兒童、年輕人和成年人沒有得到他們需要的心理健康護理是不可接受的，我們知道等待心理健康服務的時間太長了。
"We are committed to reforming the NHS to ensure that we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health. It is unacceptable that too many children, young people and adults do not receive the mental health- care that they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are far too long.
“我們決心改變這壹點，這就是為什麽我們將在兒童和青少年心理健康服務中招募8500名額外的心理健康工作者。我們還將在每所學校引入壹名專業心理健康專業人員，並推出青年未來中心。”
"We are determined to change that, which is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across child and adolescent mental health services. We will also introduce a specialist mental health professional in every school and roll out Youth Futures hubs."
我們四國領導人史蒂夫·穆利根在辯論前向議員們做了簡報，他說：
“在新政府任期的早期，這場辯論提供了壹個重要的機會，強調輔導員和心理治療師可以而且應該發揮核心作用，幫助實現工黨的宣言承諾，改善對所有人的心理健康支持。"This debate provided an important opportunity, early in the tenure of this new Government, to highlight that counsellors and psychotherapists can and should play a central role to help deliver Labour's manifesto commitments to improve mental health support for all.
“除了繼續與政府接觸以幫助制定他們的計劃外，我們還期待與Sojan Joseph以及在辯論中熱情發言的許多新議員合作，幫助我們支持我們的成員在履行這些重要承諾方面的才能，以加強教育、衛生和社區環境中的心理健康應對措施”。
“As well as continuing to engage with Government to help shape their plans, we look forward to working with Sojan Joseph, and many of the new MPs who passionately spoke in the debate, to help us champion the talents of our members in delivering these important commitments to enhance the mental health response in education, health and community settings".
