{"id":377834,"date":"2026-04-13T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:10:08","slug":"kidderminster-man-takes-mental-health-petition-to-downing-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377834\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidderminster man takes mental health petition to Downing Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A father has walked more than 100 miles to deliver a petition to Downing Street in memory of his son and to call for better funding for children&#8217;s mental health services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Collins initially set out from son Mitch&#8217;s memorial bench in Wolverley, Worcestershire, on 28 March but was set back by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c05d1plzee5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a knee injury<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he didn&#8217;t give up, and with wife Lisa and eldest son Drew continuing the route, Collins helped complete the final stretch at the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The petition calling for Mitch&#8217;s Law, which was started in 2020, has garnered more than 13,770 signatures. The family will needed 100,000 to trigger a parliamentary debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father has walked more than 100 miles to deliver a petition to Downing Street in memory of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-377834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}