More than a fifth of the complaints dealt with by Northern Ireland’s children’s commissioner arise from problems experienced with child and adolescent mental health services, it was revealed today, writes Simeon Brody.
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Children’s mental health takes up the largest proportion of time for the commissioner’s legal and complaints team.
The commissioner Nigel Williams said he was receiving “impassioned pleas for support on suicide and self-harm” and argued that young people’s voices needed to be heard by the task force on suicide set up by the Northern Ireland minister for health, social services and public safety, Shaun Woodward.
