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...
The Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing (SSW) mental health intervention was found to be the most effective among five programmes analysed for the research, which involved more than 30,000 pupils across 513 schools...
A group of children’s and mental health charities have published a report calling for the Government to increase investment in child mental health care in England. The report states that around 20% of young people in...
The children’s mental health crisis will cost them more than £1 trillion in lost earnings over their lifetime, campaigners are warning.
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UCL has published new research into child admissions to medical wards for mental health concerns in England. Researchers examined data on admissions of 5- to 18-year-olds to medical wards in England from 2012 to 2022...
‘Major reforms’ of the funded childcare entitlement system are needed to benefit disadvantaged children, experts have urged, as latest analysis finds that two thirds of poorer families are missing out. Read...
Young children and babies living in low-income households are often the most likely to miss out on early childhood support despite being among those most in need of help, a report by two children’s charities is...
Mental health patients in England are being harmed by the increase in placements in psychiatric units far from their homes and families, a new report indicates.
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The number of children being referred to mental health services for support has topped one million for the third year in a row.
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The Education Policy Institute has published a report on the availability of non-specialist mental health services for children and young people in England. Key findings include: variation across the country in the...
The charity Kinship has published a report examining the educational and mental health support that children in kinship care receive in England and Wales. Kinship carried out its annual survey and received 1,657...
