You learn early on that you’re not going to make everything
all right. Lots of kids just have very tough lives, whether one of their
parents has a drink or drug problem, their dad’s just died, or they are seeing
a lot of fighting going on. Sometimes social services do something about it.
Mostly, they don’t because they simply can’t.
A lack of therapeutic intervention by social services is
quite common in austerity Britain, and it was one of the big surprises when I
started my career, working on the frontline of child mental health in schools.
Indeed my local social services describe themselves as an “emergency service”,
and increasingly seem to manage levels of risk, rather than help situations or
people improve. In many parts of the country, Camhs – child and adolescent
mental health services – is similarly stretched.
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