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Tue 05 May 2009Social workers unsure of child's rights
SOCIAL WORKERS have expressed concern at the lack of clear guidelines over the detention of significant numbers of young people in adult psychiatric hospitals.
An estimated 200 young people each year are placed in adult mental hospitals because of a severe shortage of child or adolescent mental health inpatient services.
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