At the recent National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) conference, a succession of government ministers went out of their way to highlight concerns about the standard of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). They all said something needed to be done about it. None pledged additional money.
This is despite the fact that mental health campaigners have long argued that the root of the problems in CAMHS lies in a lack of funding - it is often referred to as the Cinderella of the NHS. CAMHS accounts for just six per cent of mental health spending and less than one per cent of the overall NHS budget.
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