Co-chair of a vital report on children’s health Helen Minnis on why CPs are invaluable for the whole population, and why the government needs to support the workforce.
Having a Scottish-Caribbean background, I know the value of community. My Caribbean family – aunties, uncles, first, second and third cousins in the Bahamas – are part of my make-up. They provide an invisible powerpack that whirrs away in my ‘background operating system’, popping up now and then with good or bad news on our family WhatsApp group. That big extended family shaped who I am, giving me confidence and a sense of identify from early childhood. But, in the UK, many of us seem to have forgotten that, as the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child…
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Helen Minnis is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow.
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