HSE assessments for children 'going backwards', Ombudsman warns

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HSE assessments for children 'going backwards', Ombudsman warns.

HSE assessments on the needs of children are going backwards, Children's Ombudsman Niall Muldoon has warned.

"If we had started planning and working and moving to change those systems eight years ago, we'd be in a much better position now. "Now they're in a situation where they're blaming the fact that we don't have staff when we knew five, six, seven years ago that we needed to recruit more people. "We have a counselling and primary care system which is available for adults, where GPs will refer an adult for counselling for eight [or] 10 sessions," he said."If we had new ways of looking at CAMHS and access to CAMHS, that would show innovation.

 

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