read: Dr Bernadka Dubicka warns of the "growing crisis" amongst teenage girls The Guardian excellent coverage google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…

Read: Jon Goldin calls for more NHS child psychiatrists theguardian.com/society/2017/s…

Simon Wessely: “Every time we have a mental health awareness week my spirits sink” bmj.com/content/358/bm…

Wise words from Prof Simon Wessely: we have awareness, now we need the resources

does society discriminate against children? MH services for children fail to meet soaring demand Dubicka & Bullock bmj.com/content/358/bm…

Why should students and trainees join become ACAMH? Prof Sam Cortese explains bit.ly/2z0TOhU From 11p a day

Our Chair, Prof Scott, is keynote lecture today #WPA. Here he explains what's different about us bit.ly/2fXZgtx Wiley Psychology

important to remember the other 65% of children and young people where there's no plan. #WorldMentalHealthDay17 x.com/rcpsych/status…

need crisis care and social support for young people at the right time right place: prevention not detention x.com/HannahPerlin/s…

A message powerful in its simplicity. Thank you Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) for articulating the inequity that faces psychiatric patients.

Congrats to Rory Conn & Elaine Lockhart at Royal College of Psychiatrists awards! Inspirational child psychiatrists #ChoosePsychiatry

Many CAMHS provide a good service but children still wait too long for help, finds CQC review bmj.com/content/359/bm…

thank you Wendy for highlighting this - giving the right support to young people can make a difference. x.com/rcpsych/status…

Health and Social Care Committee Children's Commissioner for England Luciana Berger Sarah Wollaston .Children's Commissioner for England says "we have gone beyond incremental change being acceptable". Children with #mentalhealth problems will become adults with MH problems. Longfield says we cannot ignore this.

Chancellor Philip Hammond's announcement of extra funding for the NHS is welcome but we now urgently need the Government & NHS England to confirm that they will keep existing plans for the delivery of #mentalhealth promises on track. #Budget2017

Both as national director for MH and as a trust CE, I am deeply concerned at where this leaves us. We cannot jeopardise 5yrfv MH deliverables and my Trust ( and colleagues') cannot go on making 6% CIPs year on year...not to mention soc care! Some very very tough choices ahead.

The Tories said they cared about child mental health – but the Budget implies the exact opposite independent.co.uk/voices/young-p…

Abandoning mental health plan would represent 'catastrophic betrayal' huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/abandoni…

very well done Sue and thank you for your ongoing energy and commitment to our young people x.com/rcpsych/status…

invest, not disinvest, in our children and young people x.com/rcpsych/status…