SCOTLAND is facing a “ticking timebomb” of mental health problems among the country’s young people, Scottish Labour warned today.

The party said that “urgent referrals” of young people to child mental health specialists had increased by 30 per cent in four years, and that Scotland was in a “youth mental health crisis.”

But it said the SNP government had cut £30 million in funding to mental health services last year — despite promises to give the services parity with other health services by increasing spending to 10 per cent of the NHS budget by 2026.