His pledge includes providing specialist support in all schools, with a full-time mental health professional placed in every secondary school. He also wants to see a part-time professional in every primary school.
In addition, Starmer promises to launch open access mental health hubs for children and young people “in every community”.
These universal access hubs would provide early intervention support and drop-in services.
In his speech at the party’s conference this week, he promised to ensure support would be available in less than a month to a million people a year.
“One of the urgent needs of our time is mental health,” he said.
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