Schools in Glasgow are to launch plans to try and help teenage boys with rising rates of anxiety, worries over body image and other issues.

There are to be action plans within all 30 secondary schools to figure out new ways of supporting them as fewer boys use mental health services compared to girls.

The city’s education department is kicking off the project with a conference involving young men in January.

A Glasgow City Council official said there are plans to address the “mental health challenges for our young men across our secondary schools”.

“Challenges which we know include anxiety, depression and pressures around masculinity and body image,” she said at the most recent education, skills and early years city policy committee.

She told councillors that although there are menta

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