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Sunday 14 January 2024

Five Year Plan



Luciana Berger returns to key role for Labour overseeing mental health strategy

Luciana Berger will oversee Labour’s mental health strategy five years after leaving the party amid its antisemitism scandal, the party has announced.

Ms Berger, the former MP for Liverpool Wavertree, has been appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to oversee a cross-government strategy to tackle mental health issues.

Under the plan, thousands of mental health professionals would be specially trained to support people who self-harm to drive down suicide rates.



Tone down the deranged political hectoring would be a fine start. Net Zero, climate change, gender politics, race politics, identity politics. Begin with sane politics and take it from there.

That's not in the five year plan? Thought not.

2 comments:

Doonhamer said...

Wot is a cross- government?
And how much is she getting?
And how many trainers will be needed to "specially" train the health professionals?
Who and how many will train the trainers?
Who will do the job of the health professionals while they are being trained?
Will all concerned need retraining every year?
Of course another team will be needed to evaluate the efficacy of the scheme.
And who will train them?
Sounds like a job creation scheme

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - it probably sounds like a job creation scheme to the health professionals too, so enthusiasm is assured. Retraining every year? Certainly because the requirements change every year as old names are replaced by new names and the heart of it all is to learn the names because the whole thing will be audited by Ofnut.