Dr. Niall Muldoon:

I was not necessarily preferred for the CAMHS question but I cannot disagree that they are autonomous agencies. That is probably a product of history. Each consultant psychiatrist has a way of running it and children have fallen foul of that at times. We have many complaints about a child being recommended to go to a CAMHS bed by a consultant psychiatrist, then when the child gets to the CAMHS bed, the consultant psychiatrist there disagrees with the diagnosis and the child is sent home again. These things make one think that this is not child-centred and not about the best interests of the child. Having not prepared for that today, I will leave it at that.