The news follows concerns that nurses around the UK have varying levelsof skills following the closure of post-registration courses for childand adolescent psychiatric nurses several years ago.
Ian Higgins, chair of the child and adolescent mental health servicesnurse consultant forum, said nurses needed a range of core skills,including communicating with children, specialised risk assessment andemergency interventions. Instead, at present, nurses "cobbled together"skills and could come to posts with just one of the skills they needed.
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