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Thu 08 Aug 2009Rise in children treated in adult psychiatric centres
THE NUMBER of children admitted to adult psychiatric hospitals rose significantly last year due to a lack of appropriate facilities, new figures show.
There were a total of 406 admissions of children and adolescents to mental health services last year, some as young as 10 years of age,
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