Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:37 pm on 29 September 2021.
Thank you for that, Minister. As you can tell, children's mental health and young people's mental health is something that's really, really important to me, and early help and intervention is really, really important. I think, between you and me, to highlight what the third sector can do as well, to really help young people in those early stages, is very, very important. However, with that in mind, Minister, we've seen, obviously, the peak at the minute with younger people with their mental health, and that's been caused because of the lockdowns and firebreaks, and it has had a massive detrimental impact on the mental health of young people. Three quarters of young people said their mental health was worse in the early months of the pandemic, and seven in 10 British teenagers fear the pandemic will make their future worse. With the First Minister failing to rule out any more lockdowns this winter, will you inform this Parliament of the Government's plans on how it's going to prevent any negative effects on young people in any future lockdowns? Diolch, Llywydd.