In answer to a parliamentary question on the issue by Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson, health minister Anne Milton revealed that over the past 10 years the number of children and young people under the age of 24 who have been hospitalised because of self-harm has increased by 68 per cent.
The figures show three times as many girls aged between 14 and 18 were hospitalised due to self-harm than boys in this age group. During 2010-11, 12,637 girls aged between 14 and 18 were hospitalised for this reason, compared to 3,313 boys of the same age.
The charity YoungMinds said if this rise is maintained 100,000 children and young people could be hospitalised due to self-harm by 2020.
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