article_snippet: Three children in every classroom suffer from mental health problems, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned today as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg unveiled a massive new investment in tackling the national crisis.
article_snippet: Among children aged 5-16, one in 10 have a diagnosable mental health disorder, equivalent to three in every class.
article_snippet: As many as one in 12 deliberately self-harm and 80,000 children suffer from severe depression, including 8,000 under the age of 10.
article_snippet: According to figures released by the Lib Dems, the number of children aged 15 and 16 with depression doubled between the 1980s and 2000s.
article_snippet: You have got, on average, three children in every classroom in our country who have got mental health problems and are not being properly catered for, not being properly identified, not being properly supported. '
article_snippet: The funding for children's mental health will help children with conditions such as self-harming, depression and those at risk of committing suicide.
highlights_snippet: Youngsters at risk of self-harming, depression and committing suicide .
  
highlights_snippet: 80,000 children suffer from sever depression, including 8,000 under-10s .
  