The decade of delay
Children face an average 10-year wait between experiencing symptoms and receiving help.
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How mental health can be affected at various stages of development
The different mental health challenges faced by children at different ages.
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Experiencing the decade of delay: Dolly’s story
Dolly on her experience of waiting over ten years to receive effective mental health support
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A curriculum for wellbeing
We respond to new announcements that schools will be trialling mental health promotion programmes in schools
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Missed opportunities
We reviewed recent evidence about children’s mental health, and found that children wait on average 10 years before receiving help.
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Children wait ten years for mental health support, says review from Centre for Mental Health
We released a new report today highlighting that the majority of children and young people with mental health issues wait too long for support.
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Children’s mental health: the challenge ahead for the NHS, councils and schools
Children’s mental health is too important to be left to chance”. Our call for a sustained focus on reducing the ten-year gap between children experiencing mental health symptoms and actually receiving help.
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Children of the new century: the mental health of 11-year-olds
Our new report highlights the urgent need for investment in our children’s mental health.
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Children from poorer backgrounds more likely to have mental health problems
A new report finds that children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to experience diagnosable mental health problems, and that 10.3% 11-year-olds has a mental health problem.
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