Since the early 2000s, the need for improved mental health services for young people has been a main part of the national policy context, and there has been a raft of polices and strategies in response. It is also why the Scottish government launched a new mental health strategy in August 2012, which identified child and adolescent mental health as one of its four "key change areas" - and rightly so.
As a result, over the past three years, there have been significant efforts to improve access to specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) by reducing the time young people have to wait between referral and treatment.
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