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Anna Davis

Children with mental health problems ‘need support not punishment’, MPs told

Mental health campaigners insisted young people with mental health problems should be treated with compassion and understanding after Conservative MPs suggested some may be “crying wolf.”

The number of young people with diagnosed mental health problems has risen from one in nine in 2017 to one in six in 2020, the Commons education committee heard.

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