Young people

Mental Health Nursing,  Sep 2006  

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The Social Market Foundation (SMF) has urged the primary sector to do more to help young children with behavioural problems, in view of the recent report from the British Medical Association (BMA) highlighting how the lack of support for children from poorer social backgrounds increased their likelihood of developing mental health problems.

Ann Rossiter, director of the foundation, argued that: 'disadvantaged children coming from preschool programmes with social or emotional difficulties often have their needs overlooked when they get to primary school and subsequently develop more serious mental health problems in adolescence.

'The government must do more to enable primary schools to provide the emotional support these children need if we are to prevent a generation of young adults growing up with mental health problems.'

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