Primary care professionals such as school nurses and looked-after children’s nurses need to be able to refer people directly to others, and to signpost young people, without having to do so via a GP.”Column 48, Official Report, Health and Sport Committee, 24 September 2019
The Committee therefore welcomes the Scottish Government’s commitment to develop services for community mental wellbeing for 5-24 year olds and their parents.ivScottish Government (2018) Better Mental Health in Scotland The Committee notes that the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme Board has now agreed a framework which “sets out a broad approach for the support that children and young people should be able to access within their local communities.”Letter from Minister for Mental Health to Convener of the Health and Sport Committee, 10 March...