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The Scottish Affairs Committee has today published its report on Problem Drug Use in Scotland. Drug-related deaths in Scotland reached an all-time high of 1,187 last year.

The world’s largest ever study into the impact and scalability of arts interventions on physical and mental health has been launched today by King’s College London and UCL, supported by a £2m award from the Wellcome Trust.

In a report published today, the Women and Equalities Committee has found that LGBT people are expected to fit into systems that assume they are straight and cisgender far too often.

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has published a report today which looks at the experiences of children who play games online. With 93% of children in the UK playing video games, Longfield is calling for new rules to tighten up gambling laws and to address the worries children have expressed about how they feel out of control of their spending on online games.

A two-year research trial has started this month in Norfolk and Suffolk to test the effectiveness of interpersonal counselling in helping young people with mild depression.

83 percent of training participants have observed an improvement in procedures for signposting to further support at their workplace.

Tackling the ‘impact of racism’ is the number one priority to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental illness, according to the findings of a national consultation conducted by the Synergi Collaborative Centre, released on World Mental Health Day 2019. 

Winning entries will be showcased in parliament this December.

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has published ‘Guess How Much We Love You: A Manifesto for Children’ ahead of any upcoming General Election. The manifesto calls on Britain’s political parties to include a six-point plan in their election manifestos to transform the life chances for disadvantaged children and to help all of England’s 12 million children to thrive.