8. 8. Debate: Social Prescribing

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:30 pm on 23 May 2017.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 4:30, 23 May 2017

Thank you. I was just rather hoping that in your role as chair of that cross-party group, you might also perhaps look at the role of art and music therapy for younger people, because at the stage of their life where they are, they need a course correction very often. A lot of them are starting to walk down a poor mental health route for all sorts of reasons, and there is a lot of evidence out there that if you can catch them young enough, in their teens and in secondary school when they’re going through those kinds of issues, then actually it can help to bring them back before it becomes really hard to start rescuing people. And I’d be really grateful, and I’d like to join your cross-party group if your cross-party group would actually have a look at that as well, because it’s that whole principle of, ‘If we can catch them young and save them earlier, it helps them and it helps us.’