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<p>National Health Service mental health services have remained open for business
throughout this time. Our community, talking therapies and children and young people’s
services have deployed innovative digital tool to connect with people and provide
ongoing support. For those with severe needs or in crisis, all NHS mental health providers
have established 24 hours a day, seven days a week mental health crisis lines.</p><p>On
8 September, the Government launched a mental wellbeing campaign for children and
young people. This involves an extension of Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters
webpage with content specifically for children and young people and their parents
and carers.</p><p>We are taking action to ensure that children and young people have
access to support in schools. Our £8 million Wellbeing for Education Return programme
will provide schools and colleges all over England with the knowledge and access to
resources they need to support children and young people, teachers and parents.</p><p>We
remain committed to investing at least £2.3 billion of extra funding a year into mental
health services by 2023-24 through the NHS Long Term Plan. This funding underpins
our aim for an additional 345,000 children and young people to be able to access support
through NHS-funded services or school- and college-based mental health support teams.</p>
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