Every child and young person with a mental health problem will have access to therapies by 2018, Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg has said. Clegg made the pledge at the launch of a government action plan outlining 25 key areas where mental health support and services need to be improved. He told the Independent: “We know that there are therapies that can really help. And that’s why it’s so important to me that the NHS will be extending these therapies to more children and young people."
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate the way officers' dealt with concerns raised about Hamzah Khan who was found starved to death at his Bradford home almost two years after he died. The BBC reports that allegations of neglect had been made to West Yorkshire Police prior to four-year-old Hamzah’s body being found in 2011.
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