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Every child will have access to mental health support at school under an £845million-a-year Labour pledge to end years of Tory neglect.

Qualified counsellors will be recruited for all schools so vulnerable youngsters no longer have to wait months for urgent help.

In addition, a network of drop-in hubs will help 300,000 more kids after it was revealed one in eight suffer at least one mental health disorder.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “Young people are not getting the support they need.

“As a country, we have to start treating mental health as seriously as physical health.”

Labour's child mental healthcare revolution will ensure a healthier, happier generation that will benefit all of society for decades to come.

Its £845million-a-year Healthy Young Minds plan will reverse years of Tory failures that have left vulnerable youngsters waiting months for urgent care.

Early intervention would dramatically help the one in eight children suffering at least one mental disorder.

Mr Corbyn said: “If we don’t help our young people, we’re not only failing them, but storing up problems for the future for a whole generation.”

The Mirror can reveal a Labour government will:

Recruit on-site mental health professionals for each of England’s 3,500 secondary schools.

Give every primary school access to qualified experts at least once a week.

Set up drop-in mental health hubs in every local authority to directly help 300,000 more children.

It means every one of the country’s eight million state school children will have access to help when they need it.

Mr Corbyn told the Mirror: “Our society is fuelling mental illness on a huge scale and our young people are not getting the support they need.

“We have to start treating mental health as seriously as physical health.”

The number of child and adolescent mental health service appointments cancelled by the NHS in England soared by 25% in the last year to 175,000, said mental health charity Mind.

The rise suggests the system is struggling to handle the level of demand.

Children that do get treatment have to wait on average 83 days from first referral. Yet early identification is crucial, with half of all mental health problems developing by the age of 14.

Vicki Nash of Mind said: “Too often young people only get help once they reach crisis point.

“If we can enable our young people to seek and receive support as early as possible, we could drastically improve the situation.”

Around 95% of teachers believe they have taught a child suffering anxiety, while 60% believe at least one pupil is self-harming. One in eight youngsters aged five to 19 had at least one mental health disorder in 2017, the last year for which data is available, NHS figures show.

Yet nearly 60% of local authorities have seen a real-terms fall in low-level mental health services.

Shadow Mental Health Minister Barbara Keeley said: “The Government is failing young people.”

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth said: “The next Labour government will ensure mental health services are given greater priority than ever.”

The NHS in England has pledged £2.3billion a year for mental health services. But critics fear the plans could fall prey to political inertia.

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Tragic brother's battle

A teenage campaigner whose brother killed himself when he was 15 says having mental health professionals in schools could have saved his sibling’s life.

Sam West was struggling with depression when he committed suicide in January 2018.

He didn’t tell his family about his demons before his death.

The tragedy sparked brother Ben, 19, to create a petition to get Mental Health professionals into schools and offer training to teachers.

He feels someone with “mental health first aid” training would have spotted Sam was depressed.

He said: “When Sam turned 15 he started getting a little bit more secluded, more grumpy.

“We thought what he was going through was puberty, it was normal. If someone at school was trained they could have noticed the signs.”

The engineering student from Frittenden, Kent is now campaigning to make Mental Health First Aid a compulsory part of teacher training.

He said: “Early intervention saves lives. Saying ‘hey you can talk to me’ or ‘you can go here and get counselling’ – it just gives kids that immediate understanding.”