Government gets E grade over adolescent mental health services

The Government has failed children with mental health needs, according to the annual report card issued by the Children’s Rights Alliance which said the Government was repeatedly failing to meet its own targets.

Government gets E grade over adolescent mental health services

The Report Card, which will be published today, analyses and grades various aspects of policy as it affects children.

For mental health, the 2014 report card gives the Government an ‘E’ grade, down from a ‘D’ last year, with the CRA claiming that progress on key planks of service delivery were either ‘delayed’ or ‘unsatisfactory’.

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