A report by online support service Kooth highlights higher proportions of people from BAME backgrounds dying from Covid-19 and school closures as the main reasons for a surge in anxiety among under-18s.
The study found that over the last three months depression among BAME children and young people increased by 9.2 per cent compared with the same time period last year.
Over the same period, depression in white children and young people dropped by 16.2 per cent, according to Kooth.
Anxiety has increased by 11.4 per cent among BAME children and young people compared with a three per cent increase among white under-18s, Kooth says.
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