Children will be emotionally damaged for years after the pandemic without a massive expansion of mental health services, a report has found.
The Children’s Commissioner for England found only one in four children who needed NHS mental health support could access it last year.
Anne Longfield concluded the system could not respond to pandemic which has left children isolated from extended families and disrupted two years of school education.
Despite some recent expansion of mental health services the commissioner said that due to a “poor starting point” they were nowhere near good enough. Enter your postcode here and find out how your area measures up, and how you can donate and take action to help a local child learn Her fourth annual report