Mental health services for children and young people risk backward slide

Mental health services for children and young people risk backward slide The Health and Social Care Committee calls for urgent action to prevent mental health services slipping backwards as a result of additional demand created by the pandemic and the scale of unmet need prior to it.

MPs found that despite progress in numbers of young people receiving treatment, it was unacceptable that more than half with a diagnosable condition pre-pandemic do not receive the mental health support they need.

See also: 

• Children and young people’s mental health (report) Health and Social Care Committee
• Children's mental health: 'The type of self-harm is the worst we have seen' BBC News
• Children facing long waits and ‘inappropriate care’ in mental health services, report says The Independent