The warning follows the publication of the interim report by the government's CAMHS review. The report, Improving the Mental Health and Psychological Well-being of Children and Young People, revealed current performance indicators for the service focused too much on processes and not outcomes.
The report, based on more than 400 responses from mental health professionals, social workers, teachers, parents, children and young people, also found that "significant emphasis is still placed on a performance regime".
It described the four CAMHS proxy indicators (see box) as necessary and said they had led to some improvement. But the report said the reality is that outcomes and evidence-based approaches have "less focus within individual services or across the system as a whole".
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