self-harm

Keeping our children safe online is a top priority for parents. With more and more children using devices capable of accessing the internet it’s not always an easy task, especially when content is being created specifically targeting young children. This content is particularly prevalent on video content site YouTube and if your child is a […]

4 years ago

There has been a rise in concerns. *This article contains references to self harm.* Childline has received over 1,000 calls from children over the Christmas season with concerns over family conflict, mental health issues and self-harm. According to the Irish Examiner, more than 100 volunteers worked in different centres across the country over Christmas Eve, […]

5 years ago

“Self-harm needs to be discussed in a way that helps young people to find safer ways of coping.” The rate of self harm reports among women and girls has risen at an alarming rate over the past few years. New research has shown that considerably more women have reported self harming in 2014 than compared […]

7 years ago

“Nearly a quarter” of 14-year-old girls in the UK self harm, a new report has shown. 22 percent of teenage girls told The Children’s Society charity that they had self harmed in the past year. Nine percent of boys reported the same. Overall, one in six young people said that they had self harmed at […]

8 years ago

“He said it would be easier to die than go to school.”

9 years ago