Children in Scotland have been harming themselves with over 7, 000 children being admitted every year to hospitals for the past one decade.

Reports also state that between 1998 to 2009 about 160,000 children over the age of 16 were admitted with cases of cutting the skin, poisoning and scratching.

Such incidents begin from the age of about 14 years and goes up to 25. It becomes severe from the age of 16 to 25. I the U. K. around 150,000 people attend casualty departments every year because of harming themselves.

Ross Finnie, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, who obtained the data through parliamentary questions, stated that the number of such cases was astonishing.

He said, “That so many people have self-harmed to such an extent that hospital treatment was required, is a desperate cry for help and ministers must respond. This needs to change to make sure that those who are at risk of self-harming are identified and helped in their community before they end up in hospital.”

Public Health Minister Shona Robison said that they were aware of the extent such incidents have gone to and the concerned people were trying every bit to handle the issue.

Robinson added, "We are committed to improving access to both community and in-patient mental health services and we see increasing the specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) workforce as key to this."