mental health

Social media companies’ failure to tackle cyberbullying is putting the mental health of children and young people at risk, warns an inquiry from MPs and leading children’s charities.

Mental health organisations are calling on the government to extend a proposed debt ‘breathing space’ to people in mental health crisis.

Almost half of school leaders have found it difficult to commission mental health support for their pupils, and over a third of counsellors and psychotherapists said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.

Refugees living in the UK are prevented from successfully integrating into British life because they are unable to be reunited with their loved ones facing danger overseas, Oxfam and the Refugee Council have warned.