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Scots mum's anguish as young son left waiting three years for mental health support
28.06.2022 - 07:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots mum whose nine-year-old son had to wait three years for specialist mental health support said she was “left to her own devices”.
Samantha Lee Wotherspoon, 32, from Bonhill, had been waiting since before the pandemic to meet with Child and Adult Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for help for her son, Robbie.
She first raised concerns that he needed intervention when he was in nursery. She believes he is showing signs of autism.
Samantha, who lives in Third Avenue, said she was told to wait until primary one when he is settled, but she has only just got a referral to the service now that he is in primary five.
The latest CAMHS statistics show that between January and March, a quarter of young people referred in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area were forced to wait between 36 and 52 weeks before treatment commenced, with waiting times at their highest level for over a year.
Samantha said: “When Robbie first went on the waiting list, I was told it was a mile and a half long. I would phone every week, and I was left hanging.
“There’s no phone call for an update, if you don’t phone them, then you don’t hear anything from CAMHS.
“They don’t have the time or facilities to offer us anything, they were chock-a-block. We only have had one phone call since lockdown.
“We have been trying to gauge what works with him on our own.
“What works one day, won’t work the next, so without trying to sound horrible, you are walking on eggshells around him.”
Robbie has only now just been seen by the CAMHS team in the past three weeks after roughly three years of waiting, and Samatha believes that they are still not doing enough to support her family.
She said: ”Now that we have received his first appointment, things are moving
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