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Child mental health services failing and in need of radical overhaul – watchdog

The Mental Health Commission said the HSE service needs urgent regulation.

The Independent UK

Dumfries and Galloway young people play key role in creating new mental health website

The site has been co-designed by service users and staff, and is now live for young people, parents, carers, families and professionals

Daily Record

Record numbers of children seek mental health help from NHS England

Charity says young people under pressure from cost of living crisis along with fallout from pandemic

The Guardian - UK

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Ministers accused of neglecting ‘tidal wave’ of child mental ill health in England

Exclusive: Research reveals only a quarter of primaries will have vital school-based support by end of 2024

The Guardian - UK

'Work to be done' after key mental health waiting times target missed

The Scottish Government has accepted more work needs to be done to get on top of waiting times for children’s mental health services after…

The National (Scotland)

MSP urges more help for young people's mental health services in Lanarkshire

Latest figures show that almost 1600 children and young people in Lanarkshire are currently on a CAHMS waiting list – 68 per cent of whom have already been waiting longer than the target 18 weeks

Daily Record

CEO of mental health care firm hits back at critical watchdog report into hospital where three young women died within weeks

The Priory Group has 'disputed the factual accuracy of many aspects' of a CQC report into Cheadle Royal Hospital

Manchester Evening News

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"People shouldn't have to live in these poor conditions": Hospital where three women died within weeks slammed by watchdog

The mental health hospital has been the centre of concerns about the deaths of three young women

Manchester Evening News

Mental health care assistant groomed underage patients on Snapchat

Daniel Knight sent sexualised messages to his underage victims and offered to buy one cocaine and alcohol.

The Independent UK

More than 750 mentally ill children waiting over a year for treatment from HSE

The figure has almost doubled over the course of the last year

Irish Mirror

Is your child too anxious to go to school?

As Mental Health Awareness Week (May 15-21) begins, experts offer tips on what to do if anxiety negatively impacts school attendance. By Abi Jackson.

The Independent UK

Trust’s ‘challenges’ with managing gender identity service before closure

The Care Quality Commission said it wanted to ensure other services provided by the trust were continuing to deliver safe and effective care.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Scandal of mentally ill children dumped on the wrong hospital wards

Exclusive: Thousands of vulnerable patients denied crucial care as staff can’t treat their needs

The Independent UK

Families speak out as number of young Scots seeking help for mental health problems hits five-year high

A Daily Record investigation found more than 160,000 young Scots have been referred to the NHS’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) since 2018.

Daily Record

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Gateshead mum with ADHD and autism launches wellbeing service to give kids the support she never had

Lella Anthonya Halliwell wants AUThentically Autistic to support children and young people with ADHD and autism across Newcastle and Gateshead

The Guardian - UK

‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems

Exclusive: child mental health crisis deepens with one-third of all referrals denied help

Daily Record

Scots parents tell of horror at being reported to social services for misgendering their autistic child

The East Renfrewshire couple - whose two vulnerable teenagers have expressed gender dysphoria - say the stress caused by the intervention during family therapy has been a 'living nightmare'.

Manchester Evening News

Children's mental health service in Wigan 'struggling with staffing'

“We are not fully staffed, I don’t know about anywhere in mental health that is fully staffed."

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Daily Record

Staff left to work 'unpaid hours' in Forth Valley over concerns about impact of waiting times

The issue was one of several brought up during Cathie Cowan's appearance in front of the Holyrood committee.

The Guardian - UK

‘I worry my young patients will die’: UK’s eating disorder services not fit, say GPs

Exclusive: doctors surveyed say young people forced to endure long waits as NHS services overwhelmed

Glasgow Live

Children's mental health services in West Dunbartonshire to be run by neighbouring authority

The services will be taken over by East Dunbartonshire’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)

Daily Mirror

Heartbroken mum finds son, 16, dead in squalid hostel after life took dark turn

Ben Nelson-Roux became a child victim of criminal exploitation after his family desperately tried everything they could to keep him safe

Wales Online

'My eating disorder left me so ill they sent me to a pyschiatric ward in England'

Georgia Taylor was sent far from home for treatment after she turned 18 because of a lack of support in Wales for young adults

The Conversation

Antipsychotics are increasingly being prescribed to children – here's why we should be concerned

An increasing number of young people in the UK are being referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Alongside this is the rising number of children prescribed medicines that treat mental illness.

Daily Record

Councillor organises community meetings to improve ‘failing’ West Dunbartonshire's child mental health services

Deputy council leader Michelle McGinty held an open meeting with parents of children on CAMHS waiting lists earlier this month, with two more to come in the next couple of months.

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