Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 3:10 pm on 2 December 2020.
Thank you. I'm not sure if there's anyone who hasn't suffered some degree of anxiety during this pandemic, but it is, as you say, a particular problem when it comes to young people. And that's why we have had a very radical new approach to supporting young people and children in schools with mental health issues. There's been a £5 million programme that's been supported between my budget and the education Minister's budget, really looking at improving access to things like school support, giving the nurses in those schools access, giving that provision, really training the teachers. So, there's a whole host of work that has been going on within schools, and as I said earlier, we are now broadening that out to make sure that that fits in with a broader societal approach as well, where we'll be having early intervention to make sure that that support is given not just in school, but also more broadly in the community.