Our campaign urging Government to maximise the role of counselling and psychotherapy in supporting the nation through the coronavirus crisis has now been backed by 23 organisations.
Cruse, the Council for Work & Health and the Vocational Rehabilitation Association are the latest organisations to sign up to the campaign. It has also been backed by more than 10,000 people.
Steve Mulligan, our Four Nations Lead, said: 鈥淭he support we have received with more than 10,000 signatures and the backing of 23 organisations demonstrates a strong coalition behind our campaign.
鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful to everyone who has signed up and endorsed the campaign. It gives real weight to our call for聽all Governments of the UK to better support our therapists to continue their vital role on the front line of this pandemic, and to help vulnerable people and communities as we move through the crisis and beyond.鈥�
Add your voice to the campaign by聽.
Our campaign, launched with UKCP and BPC, calls on the Government to adopt three new policy proposals:
- Working with us to ensure there is a workforce to deliver a comprehensive mental health response to the crisis.
- Tackling labour market barriers.
- Signposting the public to the very best mental health support.
We wrote to the UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock MP, and relevant Health and Mental Health Ministers across each nation of the UK to reaffirm the critical role counselling and psychotherapy needs to play in helping to support people through the crisis, and afterwards as part of the important effort to rebuild. You can聽read聽the letter here.
We鈥檝e received commitments from politicians across the four nations to make聽representations聽on our behalf to their respective Government or Executive,聽as well as聽offers to table parliamentary questions and to sign and share the petition.
Please contact our Policy Team if you would like to be an organisational supporter by emailing聽PublicAffairs@bacp.co.uk