Jim Daly to ‘plug gap in youth mental health services’

Jim Daly, the minister of state for mental health, has vowed to plug gaps in the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) as he launched a suicide prevention plan for Cork.

The localised version of the national Connecting for Life strategy aims to reduce suicide rates in the city and county by 10% by 2020.

Prepared over the last 18 months, it brings together for the first time the various community groups working in suicide prevention to work in a co-ordinated way.