Found: There are student well-being requirements embedded within the new contract, described as follows: Student
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is her Department's policy that universities should have a statutory duty of care to students.
Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department has asked the higher education (HE) Student Support Champion, Professor Edward Peck, to continue to work with students, parents, mental health experts and the HE sector to drive meaningful change in mental health practice through the HE Mental Health Implementation Taskforce.
The Office for Students (OfS) is providing £400,000 of funding to the student mental health charity, Student Minds, to rapidly expand the scale and membership of the University Mental Health Charter Programme. The Programme supports universities to adopt a whole-institution approach to mental health, and also follow a process of continuous improvement to work towards the Charter Award. The University Mental Health Charter is already raising standards within the sector.
The department has appointed academic experts from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health to undertake a National Review of HE Suicides. It will report findings by spring 2025, ensuring lessons from tragic cases are shared widely across the sector.
In 2024, to support HE providers to engage with the National Review of HE Suicides and develop mental health and suicide prevention strategies, the OfS is allocating £15 million of funding. This funding is in addition to the £10 million provided early this year to support student mental health and hardship.
The government is determined that children and young people receive the mental health care they need which is why it has committed to recruit 8500 additional staff across children and adult mental health services.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help improve mental health practice in universities.
Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department has asked the higher education (HE) Student Support Champion, Professor Edward Peck, to continue to work with students, parents, mental health experts and the HE sector to drive meaningful change in mental health practice through the HE Mental Health Implementation Taskforce.
The Office for Students (OfS) is providing £400,000 of funding to the student mental health charity, Student Minds, to rapidly expand the scale and membership of the University Mental Health Charter Programme. The Programme supports universities to adopt a whole-institution approach to mental health, and also follow a process of continuous improvement to work towards the Charter Award. The University Mental Health Charter is already raising standards within the sector.
The department has appointed academic experts from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health to undertake a National Review of HE Suicides. It will report findings by spring 2025, ensuring lessons from tragic cases are shared widely across the sector.
In 2024, to support HE providers to engage with the National Review of HE Suicides and develop mental health and suicide prevention strategies, the OfS is allocating £15 million of funding. This funding is in addition to the £10 million provided early this year to support student mental health and hardship.
The government is determined that children and young people receive the mental health care they need which is why it has committed to recruit 8500 additional staff across children and adult mental health services.
Found: dying and the GP workforce- the potential for harm to doctors and patients I am a GP and medical student
Found: (3) Assisted dying / assisted suicide before Parliament(s): a rapid reaction webinar (2024) (4)
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) That includes suicide, self-harm and hate-inciting content. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Suicide promotion forums, incel communities and platforms spreading racist content continue to operate - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Services that exist solely to host abusive or pro-suicide content, for example, will not have terms of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) Sadly, suicide is the biggest killer of young people under 35. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) She understands that, but yet again she is proving that all she can do is student politics, and playing - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We know that the Leader of the Opposition lobbied personally to remove annual limits on student and work - Speech Link
Found: Definition of Euthanasia, AD (Assisted Dying), PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide), MAID (Medical Aid in
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Miles (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - None) The experience that we offer students in Wales routinely tops league tables in terms of excellent student - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Miles (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - None) opportunities for healthcare professionals of all sorts to qualify, the addition of initially 80 new student - Speech Link
3: Rhys ab Owen (Independent Member - None) According to the NHS Confederation, the suicide rates in disadvantaged areas of Wales are between two - Speech Link
4: Sarah Murphy (Welsh Labour - None) As with my predecessors, preventing suicide is a priority, and, as part of this, there is the new funding - Speech Link
Found: AMOSSHE – the Student Services Organisation Wales, which represents student support services said that