More than a third of young people in the youth justice system sufferfrom mental health problems. Young people involved with youth offendingteams should receive treatment within five days if they are accessingacute services, or 15 days if they are accessing non-acute services,according to existing targets.
However, one in five young people in the system fails to receivetreatment quickly enough. Although youth offending teams are bound bytargets, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) arenot.
At a recent conference, John McCracken, head of CAMHS at the Departmentof Health, said he was working with the Youth Justice Board "to alignperformance management arrangements so that all professionals areworking in the same direction".
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