The 2023-24 Northern Ireland budget will 'cause serious harm to children and young people', Chris Heaton-Harris has been warned.
Healthy Happy Minds was a scheme to provide counselling and therapies for primary school children
The letter to Mr Heaton-Harris was sent by the Children's Law Centre on behalf of 78 organisations and 23 individuals.Children's and youth organisations, some unions and a range of community organisations have also endorsed the letter.They said they were writing "out of a profound sense of concern" about the impact of the budget.
"It is particularly concerning to us that you, on behalf of the UK government, appear to be making decisions that will without question actively cause serious harm to children and young people in Northern Ireland," the letter said. "Interventions such as the school holiday food grant, Healthy Happy Minds and the extended schools programme have been crucial in mitigating the growing and increasingly complex level of need that exists and in addressing growing inequality."
Healthy Happy Minds was a scheme to provide counselling and therapies for primary school children, but
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