The young and the elderly are today revealed by charities as the biggest victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. Age UK says it has seen an “unprecedented” 88 per cent rise in calls and emails from lonely pensioners since March.
And Childline has had 37,168 calls from anxious and abused kids since April. Experts said the country faces a mental health crisis which could cost lives – the Samaritans say they are getting more than 600 Covid-related calls per day.
Dr Bernadka Dubicka of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry said: “Lives will be lost unless we get on top of children’s and young people’s mental health crisis right now.” She said children were waiting too long for help – and that a recruitment
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