Daily roundup: Online safety, child health, and housing benefit

Psychiatrists will get compulsory training in how to promote mental wellbeing in the use of media to children and families, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. Hunt’s pledge came in a letter to the coroner who investigated the death of Tallulah Wilson, a 15-year-old who took her own life in 2012 and was said by her mother to have been living in a “toxic digital world”. In addition, the government is to fund a research project to study how the internet can trigger suicidal behaviour and how to prevent it, reports the Standard.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has welcomed the publication of draft legislation on standardised cigarette packaging as a "significant milestone in public health policy". Professor Mitch Blair, officer for health promotion at the RCPCH, said: "Standardised packaging has the potential to reduce the shocking figure of 200,000 young people who take up smoking each year. The promise of draft legislation... will not only improve child health, but in doing so will improve the overall health of the nation."

Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron is pressing for his party to drop its support for recent changes to housing benefit in England, Scotland and Wales. The changes, dubbed the "bedroom tax" by critics but described by ministers as the removal of a "spare room subsidy", were introduced a year ago. Farron told the BBC that they "distorted" the housing market and that his party could no longer support them.

A group of organisations have won a contract to deliver support to young people and families in Kettering. The group, Kettering Together, led by Youth Works CIC, were awarded the four-year contract by Northamptonshire County Council. Along with Homestart, Kettering Youth Information, Groundwork North Northants and Wellingborough and East Northants Women’s Aid, they will be delivering youth projects, interventions for families and support to domestic abuse victims, the Northants Telegraph reports.

The Blue Youth Centre in Bermondsey has reopened after renovations by Southwark Council as part of a £130,000 improvement programme. So far the London borough has financed the revamp of three centres - New Venture Youth Centre, Camberwell Youth Centre and The Blue - with the Damilola Taylor Centre and Brandon Youth Centre still to go. Young people using the centres were consulted over the refurbishments and the council has commissioned a design company with expertise in youth centre redevelopment, to bring their ideas to life.

The growing problem of children waiting for psychiatric services in Wales is being ignored by ministers, it has been claimed. The number of children in Wales waiting more than 14 weeks for psychiatric services rose from 199 to 736 in the 12 months up to January 2014, official figures show. Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said the Welsh government was "burying its head in the sand" over previous concerns and warnings on the problem, the BBC reports.