Royal College of Psychiatrists call for reinstatement of children’s mental health survey

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has called for the government to reinstate the child and adolescent psychiatric morbidity survey as a matter of urgency. RCPsych believes that the survey, which has not been carried out for almost a decade, would provide vital data on children and young people’s mental health and help improve the commissioning and delivery of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).There has been a large increase in young people’s mental health problems in the past 25 years. One in 10 children and young people are said to have a diagnosable mental disorder. Half of all