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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt

Conservative former minister Sir Jeremy Hunt (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Archive)

Young people are being overdiagnosed with mental health conditions, Sir Jeremy Hunt has said, as he backed calls to radically reform the Send system.

The former health secretary argued that society has “lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process”, in the foreword of a Policy Exchange report.

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