Shocking new figures reveal that the year following lockdown and school closures saw a massive spike in children attempting to harm or kill themselves. The Mail has more.
Hospital admissions for suicide attempts soared by a quarter in 2021 following the pandemic, according to new statistics from NHS England Digital seen by the Mail on Sunday.
The surge in the number of under 18-year-olds trying to kill or seriously harm themselves in just a year from more than 20,000 (20,428) to more than 25,000 (25,515) also marked the highest figures since comparable records began in 2000.
Tragically, lockdown also saw the highest ever rate in a decade for child and teenage suicides, which rose by more than half from 150 in 2011 to 229 suicides of under 19s in 2021. …
Other figures from this period reveal a staggering 150,000 children were admitted to hospital over the last seven years up to the end of March 2024 after a suicide attempt or severe incident of self-harm.
Separate NHS England Digital figures for A&E admissions for children’s self-harm saw numbers rocket by a massive 55% after the first year of lockdowns and school closures.
Mental health problems among children and adolescents have risen sharply as a result of lockdown with referrals to children and young people’s mental health services increasing by 140% since the pandemic.
The latest NHS figures (to the end of 2022) revealed rates of probable mental health disorders for 17 to 19-year-olds almost tripled between 2017 and 2022, going up from 10% to 26% of the age group.
The Care Quality Commission now estimates that one in five children and young people between the ages of eight and 25 have a mental health disorder, vastly more than before Covid struck.
Charity YoungMinds told the Mail on Sunday that more than 2,000 children had tried to take their own lives while waiting for specialist treatment.
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I remember lots of comments from covidians at the time on how “kids are resilient”.
Yes indeed – and the Guardian in particular.
I was banned by that “fearlessly investigative” purveyor of fear for telling them and their BBC partners they would have blood on their hands.
Absent of even a scintilla of regret both of them. May those responsible rot in hell.
My granddaughter (16 at the time) attempted suicide after returning to school in September 2021. She struggled with the sterility of the school and what we now know to be the fear psyop. Three days in hospital before it was confirmed that she would be okay. Nightmare for her and the family.
Sorry to hear this sad story and hope she is in a better place now.
It makes me angry that those who inflicted these measures will never be punished.
Thank you. Happy to report that she’s now doing well at university.
All self-evidently predictable at the time…
…But not to the future Science Minister Lord Sir Sir and sidekick Dr UnWhittingly, Stopping the Spread nightly alongside A.B. de Pfeffel at the Whitehole podia.
Follow the Science, Kill the Kids, and not a peep from the Human Rights industry.
Well bleated, Sir Two-Tier – “Lockdown harder and faster.”
I remember a Human Rights lawyer interviewed on talk TV…..Speaking of indifference; I thought to myself, if she was the defence barrister, you may as well just skip the trial and go straight to Jail.
They will say it was covid that did it, of course. Not lockdown.
Van Tam, Whitty, Hancock, Johnson at al killed them and must be held to account.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-call-for-justice-for-tommy-robinson/
Kathy Gyngell’s impassioned speech at the Freedom Rally in London on Saturday. I am sure this will feature in the NR at some point.
Well done and Thank You Kathy.
Video link embedded.
Apparently the Rally was subject to a D’ Notice.
Hmm…
Did you expect otherwise?
There is something rotten in the State of Denmark.
Steyn has a take on this in his latest blog
Greater Manchester Police, like many institutions of the British state, has crossed over to the other side. They want you to know that”
We shouldn’t consign these things to the past tense because since that time there has been a pervasive darkening. The government even released a prognostication saying that things would never go back to the way they were in 2019. We are talking big money sent upwards and nothing left for anyone else. Might be an idea to encourage a child to learn a couple of languages and move abroad. Perhaps counselling them never to return. In the nineteenth century Irish families would conduct Wakes for their emigrating children because they knew that the would never see them again and they needed closure.