To think somewhere for mental health should be able to handle this

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Ds attends a placement for mental health and autism. He recently took an overdose the placement has now said he can’t attend. Am I wrong in thinking if it’s for both they should be able to Accommodate his mental health needs too? They were fully aware of the type of mental health needs he has before his admission.

Yes I agree that sounds wrong and unduly harsh. Is it possible to appeal the decision?

It’s hard to say. What Level of support do they offer? If they can’t offer the support and supervison needed to keep him and others safe then it may not be the best placement.

Has he attempted to overdose before or is this a new development?

Would need more info about it. Having to deal with suicide attempts, whilst part of mental health and illness, is a different level of supervision.

I expect that they have reassessed his needs and he has not passed the risk assessment. His needs are too high for the service they offer.

You're not unreasonable to expect suitable services to meet your son's needs, but you'll be aware that the system fails many due to chronic underfunding. You are unreasonable to expect a placement to accommodate all mental health needs, the mental health umbrella covers such a myriad of conditions that one service cannot meet them all.

He has overdosed before hencewise he was put in this placement. They said they could accommodate his needs.

The support is that all services users have a one to one worker and access to mental health professionals.

What kind of placement is it, is it residential or not?

If you want to challenge the decision you'd need to look at the initial risk assessment and care plan, and compare them to the assessment they have now done. You can point out that nothing has changed (if applicable), or if any of the information is incorrect you can highlight that.

You need to focus your complaint specifically on what this service's admission/ ongoing attendance criteria is.

Its residential.

That’s the thing they haven’t done a new assessment.

It sounds like they believe he needs a higher level of help than they can offer? If they believe he needs 24 hour supervision and can't offer that then I do see their point. Someone should be helping you find more suitable help for him though, has anyone said anything about what they do plan to do rather than just withdrawing what's in place?

This is 24 hour supported