Health watchdog sets December deadline for forensic child unit in CMH

The Mental Health Commission recently said: 'The HSE must expand the current limited Forensic Camhs to the planned two fully staffed teams and provide a detailed timeline for when this will be achieved.

The HSE has been given a deadline of the end of this year to open a secure ten-bed child forensic unit that has been completed in the new Central Mental Hospital (CMH).

But the HSE has recently said the facility was “expected to be operational” in the third quarter of next year and that this was contingent on the agency's “ability to recruit staff”.