Ombudsman for Children to tell UN of problems in child psychiatric services

THE Ombudsman for Children is to brief the United Nations on the urgent need to end the placing of Irish children in adult psychiatric units at a briefing in Geneva next month.

Emily Logan is understood to have already raised a number of her concerns about child and adolescent mental health services in a submission sent to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The lack of in-patient beds for children with psychiatric problems has already been raised by Amnesty International, the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy and the Irish College of Psychiatrists.