{"id":73043,"date":"2025-09-19T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:08:09","slug":"link-drawn-between-poverty-and-poor-housing-to-rising-mental-health-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73043\/","title":{"rendered":"Link drawn between poverty and poor housing to rising mental health demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 19 September 2025 06:30\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/228257-1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit:\u00a0Tynwald &#8211; the Parliament of the Isle of Man, via YouTube<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Low-income families are over-represented in services\n        <\/p>\n<p>Manx Care says people on low incomes are disproportionately represented in its mental health caseload.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Mental Health Ross Bailey warns that poverty and poor housing are major drivers of demand.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service has seen its caseload almost double &#8211; rising by 96 percent since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However, since July 2024 (following the implementation of the THRIVE model) the waiting list has been halved from 1,181 to 599.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bailey pointed to research from the Commission on Young Lives as evidence of the link between deprivation and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Appearing alongside Mr Bailey at that hearing was Health and Social Care Minister Claire Christian who explained more about how the health service is trying to fill a gap in the available data:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 19 September 2025 06:30 Picture credit:\u00a0Tynwald &#8211; the Parliament of the Isle of Man, via YouTube Low-income&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[18,117,20161,135,19,17,20158,20159,20160,167,502,337,5,20162],"class_list":{"0":"post-73043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fun","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-isle-of-man","15":"tag-manx","16":"tag-manx-news","17":"tag-mental-health","18":"tag-mentalhealth","19":"tag-music","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-presenters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}