More than a fifth of hospital doctors have had to send a child hundreds of miles to receive treatment for severe mental health problems. A survey of 576 trainee psychiatrists by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that of those working in child mental health services, 22 per cent had needed to send a child 200 miles to get an inpatient bed, the BBC reports.
Birmingham Council has commissioned the Children's Society to set up an independent investigation into what it is like for children to grow up in the city. The Birmingham Commission for Children aims to discover how the city can improve the health and wellbeing of children, and follows a series of high profile problems with children's services. Chaired by public and social policy expert Janet Grauberg, the Commission will be holding evidence sessions over the summer with a report due to be published in the autumn.
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