Mental health pleas rejected
A WORRYING 150 children a day are being refused vital mental health treatment.
In the past two years, more than 100,000 children referred to local mental health services were rejected, says the NSPCC.
This was despite Childline giving record numbers of counselling sessions to youngsters about suicide and mental health issues.
The NSPCC obtained the figures via a Freedom of information request to NHS trusts in England, which found that out of 652,023 cases referred to child and adolescent mental health services, 109,613 children were turned away between 2015 and 2017. One in five trusts that responded failed to disclose rejections.
Mental health is now the most common reason for Childline contact. The NSPCC wants the Government to shift its focus to prevention, so youngsters do not reach crisis point.