The burning injustice that remains in mental health is that underfunding means services are failing too many people – Barbara Keeley

Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet
Minister for Mental Health, commenting on mental health announcements in
Theresa May’s Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, said:

“The burning injustice that
remains in mental health is that underfunding means services are failing too
many people.

"An independent
review of the Mental Health Act is long overdue and to be
welcomed but, far from being better funded than ever before, more
than a quarter of CCGs have under-spent their mental health budgets for
2016/17. 

"A Labour
Government would invest more money in mental health and ring-fence budgets so
that money for mental health reaches the front line rather than being siphoned
off for other priorities.”