Opinion: Youth counselling remains on the periphery

By Barbara Rayment
Youth Work Now
15 September 2008

We at Youth Access recently pulled together a response to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Review's Call for Evidence. Among the comments from our members, we received the following: "We will have a joint contract with the primary care trust and Connexions, but Connexions want the contract to only be about young people not in employment, education or training, so we had to respond to the commissioner about young people who would fall through the net if this was so. My deputy grabbed the waiting-list file and went through some of the issues and I think the...

 

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