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Duchess to resume solo royal duties with charity visit Duchess of Cambridge resumes royal duties with charity visit
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The Duchess of Cambridge is due to resume solo royal duties for the first time since her second child, Princess Charlotte, was born in May. The Duchess of Cambridge has visited a children's mental health charity - her first official solo engagement since the birth of Princess Charlotte.
She will see how the Anna Freud Centre in central London treats children and young people with mental health issues. Catherine, who gave birth to her daughter in May, visited the Anna Freud Centre in central London, which helps young people and conducts research.
It is Kate's first official engagement since the birth and reflects her interest in the charity's area of work. She visited the site of the charity's planned community campus and its family school, both near King's Cross station.
The duchess was seen in public at a number of events this summer including Trooping the Colour and Wimbledon. The duchess then met other senior managers to discuss the charity's work.
And Princess Charlotte was christened at a church in Sandringham in July.
AnalysisAnalysis
By Nick Triggle, BBC health correspondent By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
The Anna Freud Centre - as you would expect for a site chosen for a Royal visit - provides a blueprint of the sort of care the NHS wants to provide for every child with mental health problems. All senior royals need causes to champion. It's not enough nowadays to just turn up to major events.
Working with schools and families, it provides the personalised and knowledgeable care vulnerable children need. At the start of his long wait to fulfil his destiny, Prince Charles solved the problem of what to do with his time by founding The Prince's Trust.
But the wider problem is that this sort of care is not universally available. Research suggests only a third of young people with mental health problems actually gets help. Younger royals are encouraged to support existing organisations, rather than launch one themselves.
Services have been subject to cuts and with both councils and the NHS responsible for care it is easy for children to slip through the cracks. Prince Harry obviously ignored that advice when he set up his charity in Lesotho.
Ministers have promised action. A government taskforce report published before the election set out an overhaul of the system, including extra training for staff, the introduction of waiting time targets and more online help. Funding increases have been pledged too. With this visit today, the Duchess of Cambridge is signalling that one of her key focuses will be the care of children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems - problems it is said affects one in 10 of that age group.
But there is, unfortunately, a long way to go. The hope among those she met today is that Kate's involvement will help to de-stigmatise a problem and bring light to something which, to a degree, has been in the shadows.
The duchess's visit to the Anna Freud Centre will take her to the site of the charity's family school, and its planned community campus, both located near King's Cross. Centre of excellence
Arriving at the centre, the duchess was greeted by Peter Fonagy, the charity's chief executive, who praised her visit as milestone for his organisation.
The visit was "a very significant step on our journey to try and establish a good mental health for children and young people in England", he said.
The charity is planning the development of a new centre of excellence in London's King's Cross.
Mr Fonagy said: "On the site we are on just here, we will construct a centre of excellence and it will have a school at its heart, as well as mental health services surrounding it, alongside cutting edge research facilities in collaboration with UCL [University College London].
"So this site will be in a sense symbolic of what we feel mental health for children and young people should be like, which is an integration of mental health with education, with social care, the voluntary sector, physical health - all in partnership with children, parents, families."
The centre, which began life in 1941, is named after Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychoanalysis and daughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.The centre, which began life in 1941, is named after Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychoanalysis and daughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
The charity's planned community campus will see experts in mental health, neuroscience and education work with children and families to develop new treatments and approaches.The charity's planned community campus will see experts in mental health, neuroscience and education work with children and families to develop new treatments and approaches.
The family school, which opened on a temporary site in September last year, provides alternative education for children who are at risk of exclusion and are struggling to achieve.The family school, which opened on a temporary site in September last year, provides alternative education for children who are at risk of exclusion and are struggling to achieve.
The visit is the duchess's first since giving birth to her second child in May.
She was seen in public at a number of events this summer including Trooping the Colour and Wimbledon. And Princess Charlotte was Christened at a church in Sandringham in July.