Rejected petition Make Mindfulness part of School Assemblies

Based on statistics, mental health issues start at a very young age and it is important to teach children and young adults how to deal with these issues, so if we introduce a coping mechanism from the start this could counteract the beginning of mental health problems.

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50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. 10% of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem3, yet 70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics/mental-health-statistics-children-and-young-people

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/217137

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Date submitted 18 July 2018
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