Growing numbers of young people are self-harming to cope with everyday life, with ever-younger children being affected.
Children’s charities claimed last week that while older teens used to be more prone to self-harm, it has now become common among 10 to 12-year-olds.
An estimated one in 12 young people in the UK are believed to have self-harmed at some point in their lives, usually by cutting themselves in secret. Girls are more likely to self-harm than boys.
Yet teachers often don’t know how to spot signs or what to do if they discover a student is affected. In some schools, staff are told to ignore evidence of self-harming and to put it down to a phase that young people will grow out of.
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