UK's Child Mental Health Crisis: Parents Reveal Agony
Exclusive: Desperate parents reveal their agonising battles with the UK's child mental health system as waiting lists spiral and children are failed. A Mirror investigation.
Exclusive: Desperate parents reveal their agonising battles with the UK's child mental health system as waiting lists spiral and children are failed. A Mirror investigation.
A brave teenager's harrowing story of surviving a brutal school beating, only to be failed by crippling NHS mental health waiting lists. His family's fight for care exposes a national crisis.
Exclusive: A heartbroken mother reveals how her suicidal 21-year-old daughter was denied urgent mental health support by the NHS, sparking outrage and calls for systemic reform.
Exclusive: A damning report reveals the over-medicalisation of youth mental health is creating a financially unsustainable crisis for the NHS, costing the state a staggering £16 billion annually and stretching support services to their absolute limit.
A major review led by former Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield finds young people in the UK are being overdiagnosed with mental health conditions, pathologising normal emotional distress and overwhelming NHS services.
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt warns against the rising trend of overmedicalising normal childhood development, arguing it overlooks the natural, uneven journey of growing up.