Parents 'begging' for mental health services for their children

Children are falling through the gaping cracks between mental health and disability services, a new Mental Health Commission report finds.

Children are falling through the gaping cracks between mental health and disability services with children waiting up to three years to be seen and no one service for the many children with both autism and a mental health diagnosis.

Parents are left “begging” for their children to be seen as they watch them deteriorate as they are passed from one unacceptably long waiting list to another, a new report into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) found.