A new report by the confederation’s mental health network reveals that demand for mental health support for young people across all services has “already grown significantly” since the pandemic.
The report warns that the health crisis “has worsened existing challenges, including health inequalities”, affecting mental health support for children and young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, lower-income backgrounds, those who identify as LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) and those with special educational needs or neurodevelopmental differences, it adds.
Overall, the number of children and young people contacting mental health services increased by nearly a third during the first year of the pandemic.
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