Mental Health Support

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:35 pm on 12 February 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:35, 12 February 2019

Well, Llywydd, absolutely we will be keen to learn any lessons that there are from new initiatives elsewhere. It's part of the joy of devolution that we are able to try things differently in different parts of the United Kingdom and then to share the learning between us. As the Member says, we already have a whole-school approach to mental health here in Wales. Eleven thousand, five hundred and fifty eight children benefited from the school counselling service in the last year for which we have figures. And anything that we are able to share with others, from our experience, we are very keen to do. But, equally, it's always seemed to me that the sensible approach to devolution is to regard it, as we've said many times here, as a form of living laboratory in which experiments that are carried out elsewhere are available to us all, to draw any learning.