Children's mental health charity YoungMinds found that 23 per cent of secondary school pupils asked, said that there was less mental health support in their school than before the pandemic.
Just nine per cent agreed that there was more mental health support.
Some 40 per cent of pupils said there was no counsellor available to support students in their schools while just over a quarter (27 per cent) had had a one-to-one conversation with a teacher or another member of staff in which they were asked about their wellbeing.
A further 69 per cent of respondents described their mental health as poor now that they are back at school compared with 58 per cent who described their mental health as poor before returning to school.
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