Yesterday, BBC News<\/em> reported both on ‘missing’ child mental health funds<\/a> and World Health Organisation (WHO) concerns about over-use of anti-depressants by children<\/a>.<\/p>\n Something needs to change, and whilst we clearly need more provision at the treatment end \u2013 and the funding and a real commitment from government to making this happen – we really need to do more work on prevention, teaching children how to work on their own mental health and giving this the same priority as working on physical health and well-being.<\/p>\n This article was originally published, in full, on the RWS website<\/a> on 9th March 2016, and re-published on Huffington Post UK<\/a> on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barely a day goes by without me reading or hearing something in the news about Mental Health, especially children’s mental health. Yesterday, BBC News reported both on ‘missing’ child mental health funds and World Health Organisation (WHO) concerns about over-use of anti-depressants by children. Something needs to change, and whilst we clearly need more provision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,382],"tags":[378,379,380,381,383],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-youngmindsmatter","tag-children-and-anti-depressants","tag-childrens-mental-health","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}You can read the full children’s mental health article on the links below:<\/h3>\n