New and expectant mothers will be able to access specialist perinatal mental health community services in every part of the country by April next year, it has been announced. NHS England has said £23m will be set aside to establish a second wave of community perinatal services to underserved parts of the country.
Young people whose parents have divorced should have the right to keep in touch with their grandparents, children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has said. The Telegraph reports that Zahawi said he backed contact between grandparents and children as long as it was in the child's best interests. His comments come after the Ministry of Justice pledged to examine whether grandparents should get an effective legal right to see their grandchildren after family break-ups.
Every person in Britain should receive £10,000 when they turn 25 to help fix the "broken" intergenerational contract between millennials and baby boomers, a think tank has proposed following a two-year study. The Guardian reports that the Resolution Foundation said the payment, described as a "citizen's inheritance", is intended to redistribute wealth at a time when young people need it most to find housing, return to education or start a business.
A 13-year-old boy shot in north-west London was an innocent bystander, police have said. The BBC reports that the teenager was one of five people shot in the capital within 24 hours. He was hit by shotgun pellets as he walked with his parents in Wealdstone High Street on Sunday. Police believe two others were injured including a 15-year-old boy who is in hospital with a head injury. A third victim was hit in the arm, but has not come forward.
Britain is confronting a mental health crisis because resources for children are so stretched that some only receive help if they seriously self-harm or attempt suicide, Barnardo's has warned. The Guardian reports that Javed Khan, chief executive of Britain's largest children's charity, said that young people's mental health has never been worse in the organisation's 152-year history. He said radical action is needed because funding cuts had forced charities to abandon vital services.
