Child mental health crisis exacerbated by closure of 1,000 Sure Start centres, says top psychiatrist Massive cuts to pre-school children’s centres in poorer areas have heaped pressure on children’s mental health services and are fuelling the UK’s current crisis, a leading child psychiatrist has said.
About 1,000 Sure Start centres providing early years health and education services have closed in the past decade, according to Dr Bernadka Dubicka, who leads the child and adolescent mental health faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
These services have been shown to prevent thousands of hospital admissions a year and save the NHS millions but have seen their budgets cut by two-thirds under the government’s austerity programme. The Independent
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