
Money worries have replaced Covid-19 as the key concern for most children and young people, according to a longitudinal study commissioned by children's mental health charity YoungMinds.
The research, which tracked 500 young people aged 11 to 24 over two years, saw money concerns rise 16 per cent year on year in 2022.
“We found that money worries are affecting the mental health of children as young as 11: two per cent of 11-year-olds said money worries had made them feel angry, unhappy, negative, anxious or stressed in the past three months, and four in 10 said they had struggled to cope with money worries,” says Olly Parker, head of external affairs at YoungMinds.
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