Children and Young People's Sleep Service - North Yorkshire

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Poor sleep patterns impact on learning and cognitive ability, children and young people who are sleep deprived often fail to meet their full potential in school; and sleep deprivation is also linked to obesity (DfE, 2010). Child sleep problems are also associated with high levels of parental stress and irritability and, importantly, increase the risk for, and the severity of, daytime behaviour problems. Over the years several studies found parents reporting high levels of unmet need for ski...