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New blog here by the amazing David Gray-Hammond:
CAMHS refusal to work with Autistic children violates ethical standards created by the House of Commons
If you are unaware of current issues with CAMHS, you can catch up by visiting my CAMHS Crisis resource page. However, the cliff noted version is this; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are turning away Autistic children and young people from their services. This is very unethical, but that lack of ethics goes further.
You could be forgiven for not knowing what “Parity of Esteem” is. Parity of Esteem is a concept set forth by the House of Commons. The basic premise is that it requires an ethical approach that places mental health in equal priority with physical health. This has been important to the world of unschooling and EHCPs as it gives the two legal parity, allowing parent/carers to remove their child from the school environment for the best interests of their mental health.
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