Clinically significant mental health conditions among children rose by 50 per cent compared to three years earlier, according to an NHS study carried out in July 2020, her report reveals.
In addition, a “staggering” one in six children now have a probable mental health condition, according to the children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield.
The findings have been detailed in her fourth annual report into the state of children’s mental health services.
This warns that many children are struggling to access services.
But Longfield praises some local areas for “improving above and beyond what central government has expected of them and delivering vastly improved services for children”.
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