<p>Improving Mental Health </p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 9 May 2017.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 1:58, 9 May 2017

First Minister, a number of deaths by suicide have occurred in the recent past in schools in my constituency. Now, earlier this year, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom made an announcement that every secondary school in England should be offered mental health first aid training, which teaches people how to identify young people who might be developing a mental health issue, and this policy has been very well received by charities and professionals especially, and we must remember that many young people do struggle with issues such as anorexia and self-harming as well as suicidal thoughts. And I just wondered, First Minister, if you might consider a similar initiative to go on in our schools to try to prevent these wasteful deaths.