Mental health groups condemn bed closures at key child unit

 

Mental health professionals and advocates are seriously concerned for the welfare of the most ill and distressed children following the decision to shut down almost half of the beds at the country’s busiest inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric unit.

Minister of State for Mental Health Mary Butler confirmed that the number of beds at Linn Dara Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit in West Dublin was being cut from 24 to 13.