Claim: Nine percent of parents surveyed say their children have started self-harming in response to the cost of living crisis.
Fact-check: Child self-harm numbers in the Guardian, Mirror and Independent don't reflect survey's actual findings - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. this comes from a survey by the childhood trust in which the proportion of all parents saying this was more like 3%.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-06-20T00:00:00