Breaking Point: Young People’s Mental Health

Children and young people are experiencing a crisis in their mental health. Growing numbers of under-18s are suffering from anxiety, depression, eating disorders and other conditions, and more are self-harming and attempting suicide.

The NHS is struggling to cope with the increased number of young people in need of psychological and psychiatric support; many under-18s face delays to treatment, or can only receive it in facilities that are hundreds of miles from home, while Theresa May has made children’s mental health a key domestic priority.

Chaired by Guardian health policy editor Denis Campbell, our panel will be discussing the reasons for this growing crisis and what the solutions might be. Campbell will be joined by Luciana Berger MP, president of the Labour Campaign for Mental Health; Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England; Dr Bernadka Dubicka, the chair of the Child and Adolescent Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists; and award-winning vlogger and presenter, Grace Victory.