This week, the Duchess of Cambridge pledged support for the UK’s first Children’s Mental Health Week. Catholic schools are often on the front line of this rising tide of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide On Monday night, the BT Tower in London lit up with childlike doodles of a smiling sun to launch the UK’s first Children’s Mental Health Week. The cheerful illumination contrasts with the disturbing message of its founding charity, Place2Be: that children’s mental health is in crisis. The charity, which promotes counselling support in schools, says the need for its services is “acute and growing every day”. Three children in every classroom have a diagnosable mental health problem and, among teenagers, rates of depression and anxiety hav