Children and Young People: Mental Health

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 February 2018.

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Photo of Michelle Donelan Michelle Donelan Conservative, Chippenham 12:00, 6 February 2018

A constituent’s 14-year-old son suffers severe obsessive compulsive disorder, resulting in self-harm. Treatment options have failed and his doctor recommends an intensive residential programme, but as Ministers are aware, places are very limited. He has been waiting seven weeks and counting, with 24-hour parental support and supervision. What more can be done to ensure that that boy and other adolescents who are in desperate need of help get that help before it is too late?