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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Isabella Redmayne

One in five young people now use mental health services by age 18

One in five young people in Britain now access specialist mental health care by the time they turn 18 in a “seismic shift”, new research has found.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh examined figures from Wales, which they say reflect those of the whole of the UK, and found a fourfold increase in the number of children accessing mental health services in the last two decades.

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