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Sally Marlow puts some of the issues we have come across throughout the series to UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Rates of mental illness amongst adolescents have risen, and yet action is severely lacking, we ask who is accountable and what is goverment doing?

We look to the future, how can change realistically be achieved in both the short and medium term?
What does the new funding announced for the NHS mean for Adolescent Mental Health?
It is clear the current system is broken - but how can and should adolescent health services be reorganised? Many young people in need reported the damaging effect of the chasm between adolescent and adult services, can this be done away with?

One solution is to involve schools more, how can this be achieved ?

And how can the more imaginative approaches of the voluntary sector, often involving arts, music and community based support, be incorporated into mainstream NHS mental health services for young people?

We examine emerging government policy on this issue, where does the Health Secretary think the emphasis should go, and what exactly will be funded?
And what about the mental health research community, often working in both academia and treatment, how can their insight be harnessed to inform public policy?
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The minster answers points raised by many of the young people we have met in this series who have first hand experience of the current mental health system.