If you have any concerns about your child please feel free to discuss with their Guidance Teacher.

Below, we have sign-posted information and guidance about the issues most commonly seen in school-aged children. The links will take you through to the most relevant page of the listed website, with information to support parents, school staff and young people.

• Sources or support at school and in the local community
  
• Various apps to support positive mental health
• Self Harm
• Depression
• Anxiety, panic attacks and phobias
• Obsessions and compulsions
• Suicidal feelings
• Eating problems

Prevalence of Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Issues

•    1 in 10 children and young people aged 5 - 16 suffer from a diagnosable mental health disorder - that is around three children in every class.
•     Between 1 in every 12 and 1 in 15 children and young people deliberately self-harm.
•     There has been a big increase in the number of young people being admitted to hospital because of self harm. Over the last ten years this figure has increased by 68%.
•     More than half of all adults with mental health problems were diagnosed in childhood. Less
• than half were treated appropriately at the time.
•     Nearly 80,000 children and young people suffer from severe depression.
•     The number of young people aged 15-16 with depression nearly doubled between the 1980s and the 2000s.
•     Over 8,000 children aged under 10 years old suffer from severe depression.
•     3.3% or about 290,000 children and young people have an anxiety disorder.
•     72% of children in care have behavioural or emotional problems - these are some of the most vulnerable people in our society.