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As opposition leader at the start of the year, the Prime Minister launched Labour’s Child Health Action Plan to create the healthiest and happiest generation of children ever. The plan contained some bleak statistics about how children in the UK were falling behind the rest of the world not only in physical attributes such as height and obesity but also in terms of mental health and happiness. The commitment to change this is within the government’s mission to make the NHS fit for the future – one of five missions highlighted by the new Labour administration.
Creating a future where children are happy is one of three goals in the Child Health Action Plan. To be honest we’d like to refine it slightly and say a future where children are emotionally healthy. It seems an unrealistic goal for children to be happy all the time, more important is to provide them with the emotional health to cope with the ups and downs of life successfully.
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