The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people is a key priority for Portsmouth Music Hub, and also for the city. At the beginning of 2020, consultations with students as part of the hub's Youth Voice programme indicated clearly that mental health and wellbeing were areas that the young people thought the hub should be focusing on in order to support their needs.
Just a couple of months later, the country went into lockdown and the music hub launched Sound Minds, a programme using music and the arts to enhance children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. Throughout the pandemic, being able to focus on how music and the arts could specifically support young people was a challenge but was also a way to show students that music and the arts really could make a difference in their lives.
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