This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Petition Fund psychotherapy for at-risk youth
If the average direct annual cost per prisoner in England and Wales is £22,933 and the collective focus is on the outcomes for people - treating Youth violence with psychotherapy would reduce offending, government spending per prisoner and the outcomes for young people.
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Half of all lifetime, mental health conditions start before the age of 14
75 % before the age of 24 – specifically 10 percent of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem
Yet 70 % of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age (Children’s Society 2008
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