Data from the Office for National Statistics, analysed by youth mental health charity YoungMinds, found that suicide rates rose by a third from 2020 to 2021, with 147 young people aged 15 to 19 taking their own lives in 2020, rising to 198 in 2021.
The number of young people being referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) has also reached a record high, with NHS figures showing a 23 per cent rise the number of under-18s needing NHS treatment than at the same point last year.
In the first quarter of 2022, 241,791 young people were referred to the NHS – already half the total figure referred in the whole of last year – and are yet to be treated and remain on waiting lists.
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