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The article reports that Susie Orbach, a consultant psychotherapist, has condemned Great Britain's green paper on children’s mental health for its failure to address the part played by its own policies in the rising rates of referral to children and young people’s mental health services.

The article reports on the publication of the paper entitled "Nudge Unit" on the last day of 2010. The paper discusses the application of psychological principles for public health improvement. It focuses on the consideration of lifestyle and health issues as the major contributor of deaths in Great Britain. It includes case studies of the libertarian paternalism psychological approach applied to organ donation, smoking, teenage pregnancy, and social care.

The author expresses his disappointment with the 2017 Green Paper on children and young people's mental health published by the British government, which excludes school-based counseling from the proposed mainstream provision. He reveals the burden brought by the plan on the teaching staff. The author mentions the effort of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) to improve access to counseling for children and young people.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2016 annual conference of the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) that took place following the launch of a health and disability Green Paper in Great Britain. Topics include IES human resource (HR) research head Professor Stephen Bevan's presentation about the decade of progress towards getting work and wellbeing on the agenda and the presentation of case studies that looked at the challenges of employee wellbeing programmes in global companies.

The article reports that a new British Medical Association briefing paper warns that unregulated screening programmes by the private healthcare sector could be causing psychological harm. It calls on the Government to address the growing problem.