SPOTLIGHT SET TO FALL ON MENTAL HEALTH OF NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE'S YOUNG PEOPLE

                                            

Cllr Lindley - he has a healthcare background

HOW well are North East Lincolnshire's  children coping in these troubled times?

The council's portfolio for young people, Cllr Ian Lindley, is due to give an update to fellow-councillors and officers at a meeting on Thursday.

According to Public Health England, there are an estimated 3,000 children and young people in North East Lincolnshire aged 5-17 with mental health "conditions".

This underlines the need both  to build resilience and to promote prevention and early help across the borough.

The rate of child inpatient admissions for mental health conditions within the borough is  understood to be in line with the national average -72.5 per 100,000.

Likewise, the rate of self-harm at 426 per 100,000 individuals.

A pre-meeting document seen by the Grimsby News states: "North East Lincolnshire’s vision for a future service is to provide a mental health and emotional wellbeing service which supports children and young people to have access to timely, integrated, responsive, safe, high quality and multi-disciplinary services."

* Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to reveal additional financial support for mental health services on Wednesday when he presents the Government's spending plans.