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By Jake Keith & Rachel Amery June 1 2021, 5.08pm © Shutterstock / Master1305 The number of children waiting more than a year for mental health support in Fife has hit the highest-level ever recorded, shocking new figures show. 88 youngsters were on the appointment waiting list for at least 12 months as of February this year, which amounts to almost a quarter of all patients referred. The figure, which is for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), has exploded from under 5% in September to 22.7%. The problem is mirrored in many areas in Scotland with the national figure a...

THE NUMBER of children and young people forced to wait more than a year for mental health treatment in Scotland has soared to the highest figure on…

Child mental health year-long waits at record high Published image captionNew report shows waiting times for CAMHS are the worst on record during Covid The number of children waiting at least a year for mental health treatment has almost trebled since the pandemic hit. In March 2020 there were 695 young people waiting at least 52 weeks for their first appointment with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). New figures show that by March this year the figure was 2,012. The Scottish Children's Services Coalition (SCSC) said the figures were the "worst on record". It has raised con...

Serious child protection allegations have been made by parents, who claim they were forced to remove their children with additional support needs from a Glasgow primary school. The Ferret has spoken to the parents of four children – aged six to nine – who attended St Charles’ Primary in Kelvinside in the last year and raised concerns. One child is still at the school. All have additional support needs including confirmed or suspected autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Many of the complaints revolve around what parents claim i...

Submitting... I say incompetence because medical research findings going back to at least August 2020 indicate that this change could have been made much earlier. Indeed, it was announced on 11 December that the period of self-isolation for Covid cases was to be reduced from 14 to 10 days and this change was based on similar research findings. How many people unnecessarily self-isolated and how many further false positives were created before this 90-day rule was finally introduced? Geoff Moore, Braeface Park, Alness. Kids’ mental health needs big investment As a coalition of leading provid...