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It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and although we should always let our consciences be our guides, sometimes we need to tell our brains to sod off, writes the former government mental health champion

Schools are stretched to the limit – we can’t expect them to tackle the child mental health crisis without a lot of extra support, says the former government mental health champion

The surge in people speaking openly about their mental health doesn’t mean they’re all ready to be sectioned, it simply means we need the psychological equivalent of Lemsip and a hot water bottle

Is the absence on the curriculum of politics because the public are easier to manipulate if they are ignorant of the inner workings of Westminster, asks the government’s former mental health champion

If we continue to focus on how universally dreadful the internet is, we’ll miss opportunities to help young people navigate it successfully and safely, writes the former government mental health champion

I could never have predicted the damaging consequences for mental health of the Conservatives’ education policies, writes the government’s former mental health champion