HongKong

Hong Kong’s teachers told to be on alert after suspected suicides among city’s children hits eight-year high




Hong Kong’s education authorities have urged teachers to step up the detection of suicidal warning signs among pupils through their attendance records and coursework, after the number of children believed to have killed themselves last year reached an eight-year high.Official figures showed at least 23 primary and secondary pupils were suspected to have taken their own lives during the 2019-20 school year, up from 20 cases reported in 2018-19, and 16 in 2017-18. There have been about 130 cases…



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