ALMOST £400,000 has earmarked to be spent on building ‘emotional resilience’ in young people to fight mental health problems.

The Central Area Council - which covers the Kingstone, Stairfoot, Worsbrough, Dodworth and Central wards - has agreed to pay £130,000-a-year for a three-year service for eight to 19-year-olds.

Councillors were told half of all cases of mental illness begin by the age of 14 and the Central Area Council is hoping to stave this off by catching young people early.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle