A coroner will write to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care about the increase in children seeking mental health support after a 12-year-old girl took her own life.
Andrew Hetherington said he will contact Therese Coffey after hearing, during the inquest of Charley Ann Patterson, about the increase in the number of children presenting in hospital for self-harm and anxiety.
The inquest into her death heard how Charlie hanged herself at her home in Cramlington, Northumberland, after being bullied. She was found unresponsive in her bedroom by her dad Paul and and passed away in hospital on October 1, 2020.
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