There were nearly 300 incidents of girls aged 15-to 19 admitted to NHS hospitals for stress over the 12-month period to November 2013, The Guardian reports. Girls in that age group were behind only middle-aged men in numbers of stress-related hospital admissions, according to statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Conservative-led Leicestershire Council has approved £12.6m of cuts to its children and young people’s service by 2018 including "efficiency savings" and social care placements. The BBC says the council has identified £87m total savings over the period and plans to axe 700 jobs.
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