On 27 November a teenage girl experiencing a mental health crisis had to stay in a police station for two days, due to a lack of psychiatric places. This inappropriate interim placement is a bleak indicator of the state of affairs in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in the UK.
There is growing evidence that the state of mental health among children and young people in the UK is in decline, exacerbated further by the Covid-19 pandemic. CAMHS is seriously overstretched, having to turn away patients in need of support to deal with the most severe cases. This has a direct impact on the experience of young people who are detained under the Mental Health Act (1983).
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