Ms Martina Kelly:

He is a risk-taker because of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, and he got early help because the school saw that he had huge problems and pushed for it. I think we got in reasonably quickly compared to many people, because the school spotted he had problems at the age of five, and he was with a child psychologist from the age of six until eight, and he got into CAMHS when he was eight. I felt that we were lucky to get into the system fairly quickly, but I feel that the system let us down when we were in there. We even had an appointment yesterday but nobody from CAMHS was sent. There was somebody from every discipline there. There were ten people around the table, but CAMHS could still not send one person. We were all given plenty of notification. Even when we started with CAMHS, it was one appointment every six months. Much can happen in six months. The people in it did not even want to discuss anything with my son and did not even ask him a question. The only question they asked every time we went in was if I wanted to increase the medication. They did not want to have any conversation at all. We were the lucky ones getting into the system, but the system let us down. My son attended every appointment he was ever given. He was very co-operative. We did everything we could possibly do but the system still let us down.