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Lack of services puts young at risk, say GPS

In a survey of 1,000 GPS, conducted on behalf of the mental health charity Stem4, almost all (99%) feared that young people in the UK risk harm while waiting for specialist mental health treatment.

Most GPS (90%) also thought mental health services

for young people had deteriorated over the past two years.

Stem4’s founder Nihara Krause said: “Even though this Government has promised more funding, nothing much has changed, except that we now know that more children and young people have a mental health condition.”