100,000 children and young people could be hospitalised due to self-harm by 2020 warns YoungMinds

By 2020, 100,000 children and young people could be hospitalised each year because of self-harm according to the figures revealed by the UK’s leading children and young people’s mental health charity, YoungMinds. The figures obtained in a parliamentary question by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson reveal that in England: · Over the last ten years inpatient admissions for young people have increased by 68% due to self-harm · Last year alone hospital inpatient admissions for under 25s increased by 10% due to self-harm. · Amongst females under 25 there has been a 77% increase in the