Surge in children seeking mental health support
Updated: Jul 23, 2019
Soaring numbers of children seeking help for mental health issues have been blamed on savage cuts to local authority budgets.
Politicians and council leaders are calling on the government to inject funding into children’s services as an analysis of figures reveals the number of youngsters identified by councils as having mental health problems has surged by 54 per cent in four years.
The figure rose from 133,600 in 2014-15 to 205,720 in 2017-18, with more than 560 cases recorded every day last year on average.