Plans for a new mental health centre at Alder Hey children's Hospital has been given the green light from Liverpool Council .
The council's planning committee approved plans for the centre, which will consist of a number of buildings, this morning.
The new centre forms part of a wider expansion of Alder Hey , already one of the largest children's hospitals in the country.
A report attached to the application says it will mean the hospital's children's mental health services will be brought under one roof for the first time.
The report says: "The Community Cluster building brings together a range of clinical and operational support services that are currently scattered around the hospital site: Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS), neuro assessment, orthotics and psychology outpatients departments.
"A community police station is also incorporated into the building, with a separate entrance.
"The Dewi Jones unit is a secure inpatient mental health facility for young people aged 5 to 13, occupied Monday to Friday, with a reduced occupation at the weekends.
"The unit will be relocated from current facilities in North Liverpool to the hospital site, enabling proximity to additional medical support."
Planning committee members unanimously approved the plans this morning.
Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, which runs Alder Hey, released images of its plans for a larger expansion earlier this year.
They include plans for a new "health campus", which would include sports facilities, an orchard and a "forest school".
