{"id":56634,"date":"2016-12-09T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_childrens_charities_sound_alarm_over_self-harm_epidemic\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:00:42","slug":"london_times_childrens_charities_sound_alarm_over_self-harm_epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56634","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Children\u2019s charities sound alarm over self-harm epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-harm among children has reached \u201cepidemic levels\u201d\u009d with almost 19,000 under-18s ending up in hospital for their injuries last year, a report says.<\/p>\n<p>Figures obtained using Freedom of Information requests found a growing number are being treated after cutting or burning themselves to try to cope with mental health problems.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 18,778 children aged 11 to 18 were admitted to hospital for self-harm in the year to March 2016, compared with 16,416, two years previously, a 14 per cent rise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/983a75a8-bd87-11e6-a53a-ca2ad7b229f9\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-harm among children has reached \u201cepidemic levels\u201d\u009d with almost 19,000 under-18s ending up in hospital for their injuries last year, a report says. Figures obtained using Freedom of Information requests found a growing number are being treated after cutting or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56634\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,101,199,168,104,98,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}