A liberal think tank in the United Kingdom has recently released a report suggesting educational institutions to begin teaching students lessons about relationships to maintain their mental well-being and build emotional resilience.

The Centre Forum submitted the report entitled "The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Ambition for our Mental Health," discussing ways of improving the maintenance of mental wellness among the citizens through different social groups from the family to the community.

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Included in the report are recommendations on how to ensure the mental health of British citizens including adding lessons in the national curriculum about maintaining students' mental well-being, identifying signs of vulnerability to mental illnesses and increased access to psychological therapies as immediate response to children experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.

This way, the British government will be able to cut back the annual cost of mental illness which reaches up to £105 billion every year through making happiness an 'explicit and measureable goal,' stated former Lib Dem Health Minister Paul Burstow who is currently leading the report.

"We need to promote good mental health from the earliest opportunity, and make sure that schools, workplaces and the communities that we all live in are supporting us to be mentally well," he added explaining that mental health assessments should be done for children during their teen-age years, specifically when they are 11 and 13.

The report was established within 12 months of extensive investigation by Centre Forum, taking necessary data from mental health institutions such as Mind, Turning Point and Rethink Mental Illness.

Openly accepting the report, Chairman of the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition Professor Sue Bailey said that it shows how to provide early identification, assessment, timely support and treatment.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Norman Lamb has promised to take the report into consideration adding that the government had already allocated over £450 million to enhance available mental health treatments for children and young adults.

A government spokesperson confirmed that the national government will be investing £54 million so that children can have good and safe mental health care, avoiding future problems that can be brought about by anxiety, depression, and self-harm.

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