Re: Children wait a decade for mental health support, report finds
The report by The Centre For Mental Health unfortunately contains nothing new. So why state that 'the report finds' the information contained in it. The people who work in the organisation have admirable experience but the money spent on yet more reports needs to be channelled into providing actual services. Constantly rehearsing the findings is a waste of funds. Simply googling the Centre will bring up pages of well meaning reports going back decades.
If any more reports are undertaken let one include an audit of how much they cost to draw up and how much they have made a difference. Let them include how much is spent on conferences and events and projects and training for failed projects and research into yet more 'innovative' projects and yet more theories and courses ........
References; The Centre for Mental Health, full report published online, Rethink Mental Illness
My own experience of working as a social services inspector of children services a decade ago and feedback from those still working in social services and clinical psychology where the gap between theory and findings from research and reports and actual practice, in many places, is farcical.
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Re: Children wait a decade for mental health support, report finds
The report by The Centre For Mental Health unfortunately contains nothing new. So why state that 'the report finds' the information contained in it. The people who work in the organisation have admirable experience but the money spent on yet more reports needs to be channelled into providing actual services. Constantly rehearsing the findings is a waste of funds. Simply googling the Centre will bring up pages of well meaning reports going back decades.
If any more reports are undertaken let one include an audit of how much they cost to draw up and how much they have made a difference. Let them include how much is spent on conferences and events and projects and training for failed projects and research into yet more 'innovative' projects and yet more theories and courses ........
References; The Centre for Mental Health, full report published online, Rethink Mental Illness
My own experience of working as a social services inspector of children services a decade ago and feedback from those still working in social services and clinical psychology where the gap between theory and findings from research and reports and actual practice, in many places, is farcical.
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