One in four UK adults (25 per cent) say they have felt lonely some or all of the time over the last month, according to a survey of 6,000 UK adults commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation.
Today, the Mental Health Policy Group, an alliance of six national charities working together to improve mental health, has written to Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson calling on them to commit to taking action to improve mental health, as set out in our new manifesto “Towards Mental Health Equality.”
As the SNP leadership contest gets underway, we urge all candidates hoping to become First Minister of Scotland to make public mental health a priority during the current cost-of-living crisis and throughout the current parliament.
This information pack is intended to provide a basic introduction to mental wellbeing and mental health problems, before considering mental health problems in children and young people with learning disabilities in more depth.
This briefing on Equality and Diversity brings together learning from five Fellows’ research in Australia, Canada and the USA, demonstrating how approaches in other countries are being used to help reduce mental health inequalities and protect the rights of vulnerable groups.
