Context matters: what’s needed for young people’s mental health?

Context matters: what’s needed for young people’s mental health? Media stories about young people make for sombre reading, especially today – the start of Mental Health Awareness Week. ‘Mental health referrals for children surge by more than HALF during Covid’, reads one headline. ‘Swamped mental health services turning away children’, reads another.

Such coverage reflects the growing numbers of young people with diagnosable mental health concerns, and a care system that is struggling to cope. The Health Foundation