NHS ombudsman warns of years-long waits and patients paying thousands to go private as demand for services soars
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The Centre for Young Lives has published its annual State of the Nation report, collating data and indicators to track trends in poverty, mental health, education, safeguarding, housing, special educational...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report on children and young people’s mental health services, examining referrals, access to treatment, waiting times, and service investment in England...
Adoption UK has published its annual Adoption barometer report, which reveals that 46% of adopted 16- to 25-year-olds were involved with mental health services in 2020, compared to the national figure of 17%. Further...
It has emerged that 48 per cent of young people had been disciplined for behaviour related to their mental health. Punishments include being excluded, physically restrained and put in isolation away from their...
The Parent-Infant Foundation has published findings from an online survey of 283 practitioners working in NHS infant, children and/or young people’s mental health services across the UK, looking at the provision of...
Almost a third of children’s mental health practitioners have said they do not understand infant mental health, a new survey has revealed.
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Purpose Adolescent mental ill-health is a growing concern. There is little understanding of changes over time in the associations between mental health and health-related behaviors and outcomes (such as substance use...
Digital technology is ubiquitous in modern adolescence, and researchers are concerned that it has negative impacts on mental health that, furthermore, increase over time. To investigate whether technology is becoming...
The Department for Health & Social Care has published the fifth progress report of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England setting out the steps taken to reduce deaths by suicide since January 2019. The report...
Flaws in the disability benefits system were “the predominant factor and the only acute factor” that led to a young disabled mother taking her own life, a coroner has concluded. Gordon Clow, assistant coroner for...
Britain’s schools shutdown risks creating a generation of angry, withdrawn young people. Who will pick up the pieces?
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A dramatic rise in serious mental health conditions in children over the last three years has been revealed in a damning report by the children’s commissioner for England. Read the full article on this link to Children...
