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SPENDING on children’s mental health services in England has fallen in more than a third of areas, a report reveals.

Kids needing basic treatments to stop “low-level” problems like anxiety developing into more serious illnesses face a “postcode lottery” of provision.

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New report reveals spending on children’s mental health services has fallen in more than a third of areas in England[/caption]

The help can include online counselling, drop-in centres and school nurses.

Researchers said £226million was allocated in 2018/19, just over £14 per child.

Half comes from local authorities and half from NHS sources.

Some 58 per cent of areas said spending rose between 2016/17 and 2018/19 yet 37 per cent saw a fall.

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High-spending areas, such as London, masked a larger proportion of low-spending areas.

Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, said: “This report reveals for the first time the postcode lottery facing the increasing number of children with low-level mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

“The children . . . aren’t asking for intensive inpatient therapeutic treatment, they just want to be able to talk to a counsellor about their worries and to be offered advice on how to stop their problems turning into a crisis.”

Kids in need of low-level treatment for problems such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders are facing a ‘postcode lottery’ in provision

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