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Mental health services failing children, children's commissioner warns

Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, has warned that a mental health service that meets the needs of all children who require treatment is still a decade away.
Anne Longfield, children's commissioner for England
Anne Longfield, children's commissioner for England

The children's commissioner's children’s mental health report, published today, finds that while the NHS has made ‘tangible’ progress in the provision of mental health services for children, the current system is still ‘far away’ from adequately meeting the needs of the estimated 12.8 per cent of children in England with mental health problems. It does not meet the needs of the children who fall just below the threshold for clinical diagnosis.

Ms Longfield says she welcomes the ‘significant progress’ made to CYPMHS (Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services) but warns that a ‘chasm’ remains between the current levels of NHS services and what children need.

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