My daughter was admitted to an CAMHS MH unit early April. Primarily for her own safety following an increase in her risk to herself and having started taking to absconding and finding herself in dangerous situations (bridges/ high places/ roads etc). She has extremely high anxiety and probably depression. ASD has been ruled out although she does exhibit triats around the social difficulties experienced by some sufferers. At our recent review on Monday our lead consultant has decided her risk has been reduced based on the fact she's been out of the unit for coffee with friends and not absconded. We asked for more detail about how exactly her risk was assessed and the basis on which they felt it had reduced as we pointed out the risk of absconding was never there hen she was enjoying time with friends and only in moments when alone and having suicidal ideation. As a result of the meeting our daughter then absconded whilst out with staff a few days later and had to be restrained. They are now pursuing a course of action to potentially Section her under the mental health act claiming her risk had now gone to 'very high' and the risk to staff. Her risk is no different from that that it was on admission but as the consultant has failed to properly risk assess her she has now done something deliberately to make them see they were wrong but this was not a change in her current risk. Can anyone advise where I stand as a parent on this (there's so much to wade through on the internet) as I'm terrified their actual aim is to remove parental consent and daughter from the unit as they find her 'difficult'. To be clear she has co-operated with staff whilst there, although does have angry outbursts as this is part of her MH problems and takes her meds they finally put her on having done nothing for the first 4-5 weeks. She has continued to self harm terribly,in many ways, despite being on 15 minute obs throughout her time there.