Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is the mental health services for under 18 year olds. Despite policies stating that under 18’s can access services confidentially, from a study conducted, it was found that only 25% of young people think that this is possible. This needs to change.
#CAMHS4All is calling for CAMHS to be accessible and confidential for young people.
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In 1999, the UK government launched the 10 year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy to lower the under 18 conception rate. Through this strategy, sex and relationship education was brought into schools, information and resources surrounding sexual health services were provided to young people and a reform of the sexual health services was implemented, to ensure that the services were young person friendly. This includes ensuring that sexual health services can be accessed outside of school hours and that they can be accessed confidentially.
Support For Us is calling for these changes to be implemented within CAMHS to ensure that young people can access mental health services confidentially, to know their confidentiality rights and to have the information available to know what help is available to them.
How you can help
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