Figures released by public health minister Anne Milton show that 17.5 per cent of under 18s who were admitted to hospital with alcohol-related problems in 2010/11 came from the most deprived 10 per cent of families, up on 2009/10's figure of 16.5 per cent.
Over the same period, the proportion of young people from the UK's richest 10 per cent of families who were admitted to hospital for alcohol related reasons stayed at six per cent.
Sheryl Dago, national development manager at the charity Addaction, believes a swathe of cuts to youth services in areas of high social deprivation is a factor in the increase.
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