Funding talks over youth’s successful treatment in UK

A meeting to decide the future of a youth who is regarded as a shining success story in the Child and Family Agency (CFA) is to be held next week, the High Court has heard.

The case involves an 18-year-old who has battled a number of psychological conditions all his life, which led to dangerous and chaotic behaviour but, following treatment in a dedicated centre in the UK, he has undergone a dramatic improvement.

Yesterday, the court was told that his placement in the Wing Centre in Bournemouth is funded until the end of June, but his future after that remains in doubt. The youth has undergone a “sea change” in his circumstances, and that no alternative plan is in place for him. There is no centre in this jurisdiction offering this kind of treatment.