Any extra monies received is always welcomed, but £26M will only paper the cracks nationally. Then it will be the stigma attached to it by seperating MH out. Also a lot of mental health can be secondary causes, often linked to another medical condition.
Take the recent case of the Tiktok suicide, no one even knew the basics of BSL, which in my view is shocking, we can't even get the basics right (*see below for more detail), new carpeted outhouses will not fix the problem it will just give you more space.
We don't have the psychologists like we use to, we have 'talking therapy' which is worlds apart, a plaster instead of a bandage for a gaping wound....more wrong calls leading to an incident.
We've been pretending to care for decades, we went from Chartham nuthouses that abused people, to nothing. Your biggest problem will be getting people to walk through the door.
Let alone it will cost billions not millions and in 10 years as is the goal, it will be long forgotten as a new party comes to power.
*Addendum to above:
In the UK, it's estimated that around 12 million adults have hearing loss. This translates to approximately 1 in 5 adults being deaf or hard of hearing. By 2035, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) estimates that number will rise to 14.2 million. Additionally, there are approximately 151,000 BSL users in the UK, with 87,000 of them being Deaf.
On your second point - my missus is facing a third op on her perforated eardrum and has very limited hearing on that side - I know, some will think it's a blessing living with me...

Far more concerning is one of my cousins - he's a year younger than me and has become a recluse because he has totally lost his hearing - done everything to contact him over the last 3 years - phone, text, WhatsApp, even calling round at his house in Leicester a few times, but no joy - he's got 2 sisters but they haven't heard either - then when I texted with news of the sudden passing of our cousin a couple of weeks ago he responded - the 3 of us were like brothers growing up, playing footie, following LCFC, holidays in our late teens through to our mid twenties - but that tragic death was the only thing that could bring him out of his gloom... we've shared a few more texts since, so hopefully a new dawn...
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