Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:

There is no co-ordination and that is the issue we have at the moment. There is this change at the moment where we are hearing that CAMHS psychiatrists might provide in-reach into the children's disability network team rather than accepting autistic children into the mental health service. Many of our children, however, are waiting two to three years to get into the children's disability network team, first of all. Some children's disability network teams are not offering a service at the moment because they are at full capacity. To have this additional step, which has to be taken before they can be offered mental health services, which are separate to disability services and which are being sought at this time-----