Mr. Conor Boksberger:

I can give a sense of our top presenting issues at the moment, which have tended to be fairly typical over the last years. Anxiety is first and foremost, followed by low mood and sleep disturbance. They tend to be the big-ticket items. What we need to get to is what is underneath that, what has led to that presentation of anxiety. That is where we really open up the lived experience of the young person. In Jigsaw we invite a young person in, and often a parent for part of that if the young person is under 18 or even if he or she is over 18 and wants to have a supportive adult there. We find out what has been going on for the young person and try to help them make sense of why they are feeling the way they are feeling at this time. Every young person will have a different story about why that is. There can be some common threads in that. We know we have gone through a very particular point in our history and that is bound to have an impact. However, there are no two narratives that are the same. We can classify them and say that anxiety is a big issue, and the research is telling us that young people are feeling highly anxious and the levels of depression are higher, we know there is a lot more prevalence of suicide and self-harm and things like that. However, what we are really trying to do is get under the surface of what is happening for that young person.