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Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
What about other family representatives? Do they have a voice at that table?
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
I will try to move the conversation on a little. Craig Hoy has a number of questions.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
Again, I want to try to nudge things on a little. I know that Willie Coffey wants to ask a number of questions.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
Thank you, Alex. GPs were mentioned a lot in that answer, so I want to bring Dr Morton back in. I will come to Alex Pirrie, Donna Bell and Hannah Axon.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
Thank you very much. I know that a couple of other people wanted to come in on that, but given that we are the Public Audit Committee, I want to use our final few minutes to have a quick look at the issue of the absence of data that has been highlighted in some of the work by the committee as well by Audit Scotland. I know Sharon Dowey has a question or two on that.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
Thank you for that powerful testimony from the front line. Other witnesses want to come in, so I will turn to them. I am conscious that time is marching on, but I want to bring in Alex Pirrie first, then the co-chairs of the joint delivery board.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
I turn to the people joining us via videolink, starting with Martin McKay.
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
It is useful to have that on the record.
My final question for now is for Alex Cumming from SAMH. This is challenge poverty week. We know from the Audit Scotland report in 2018 that, a child who lives in a low-income household is three times more likely to suffer mental health problems than a child living in a more affluent household. There is an issue about the effect that poverty has on mental health, self-esteem, self-harming, anxiety, stress, depression and so on. Those issues will be accentuated for children who are being brought up in poverty. Educational performance will be affected as well as overall life chances. Is enough being done to recognise the scale of that challenge and the inequality that it produces?
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
Dr Morton, your practice is in a relatively deprived part of the city of Edinburgh. Do you have any reflections on the impact of poverty and inequality on the mental health of the people who you see?
Public Audit Committee
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Meeting date: 7 October 2021
Richard Leonard
I presume that the delivery board has some oversight of counselling services. Can Donna Bell answer the question more directly?
