A period in residential work, followed by a decade developing services for young care-leavers in Lothian, led to Little being taken on by the mental health charity Penumbra 10 years ago to develop services for young people.
The charity's decision to branch into specialist youth services was made against the backdrop of what Little terms an "explosion" of referrals of young people to psychiatric care.
He attributes this to the combination of industrial decline, confusing changes to gender roles in society and the break up of the extended family he has observed in his adopted country. The statistics appear to confirm that specialist intervention is needed for young people.
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