CYP Now - Cost-of-living crisis has ‘significant’ impact on youth mental health

Vulnerable young people’s physical and mental health is already being affected by the cost-of-living crisis, with young parents worst hit, new research has found.

Young people who live in Leicestershire have asked for more support to feed their families. Picture: Leicestershire Cares

A review of the impact of the crisis on young people, aged up to 25, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, by support services Leicestershire Cares, reveals that that participants are skipping meals and struggling to afford bills while dealing with “increased stress about their finances and significant worry about further increases in energy and food prices”.

Young parents are particularly vulnerable, the report states, with many saying that they are unable to provide basics such as clothes and baby wipes for their children.

Young parents also told Leicestershire Cares that they are regularly “considering at what point they should skip meals to ensure their children could eat three meals a day”.

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