WHO and UNICEF are calling on governments to protect and promote women’s access to skilled breastfeeding counselling, a critical component of breastfeeding support.
The newly-elected Australian government has promised to repeal legislation which allows severely ill people to be transferred to Australia for medical treatment.
Almost half of school leaders have found it difficult to commission mental health support for their pupils, and over a third of counsellors and psychotherapists said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.
The number of Childline counselling sessions given to disabled young people rose by 13 per cent in 2016/17, an average of 22 counselling sessions a day.
CrossReach says it shares concerns raised by the World Health Organisation over the worrying rise in the number of children across the UK being prescribed antidepressants. The WHO's latest report found prescriptions had increased by 54 per cent between 2005 and 2012.
A Yemeni delegation to the UN admits it has had to establish a counselling centre for children because of the traumatisation caused by US drone attacks.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has condemned forms of therapy designed to “heal” gay and bisexual people of their attraction to members of their own sex.