Rejected petition: Enact mandatory onsite provision of mental health services in schools in England
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We want the Government to introduce a law that requires all schools in England to provide onsite mental health services for their students. We believe this would help in reducing the waiting list for CAMHS, and therefore make services quicker and more accessible to young people.
We feel it is necessary that children are able to receive both mental health support, without missing lessons. Going into school and not receiving the mental health care that they need will also affect the education and mental wellbeing of students.
Other parts of the UK, such as Scotland and Wales, provide mandatory counselling within all schools. However, there is currently no mandatory requirement for every school in England to provide onsite counselling.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have a very similar petition already open on this subject which you may wish to sign:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751950
We also have quite a few on staff training in mental health that you might want to sign, such as this one:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752343
and this one:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/746351
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.