The Time to Change campaign – backed by the Sunday Mirror and championed by boxing hero Frank Bruno – was launched in 2007, when mental ill health was still a taboo subject. Surveys show that, thanks to Time to Change, 5.4 million UK people now have improved attitudes towards those suffering from mental health problems. Some 3,000 secondary schools also got on board the campaign, bringing mental health into lessons and assemblies. “Many will be suffering the effects of job losses and closures within the mental health sector. “Mental health has remained an absolute priority with £2.3billion a year by 2023-24 to deliver the most ambitious major expansion and transformation of services ever across England and an additional £10.2million for mental health charities during the pandemic.”

Source: Daily Mirror December 05, 2020 21:12 UTC