Revealed: Scandal of mentally ill children dumped on the wrong hospital wards

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( May 02, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 / [Revealed: Scandal of mentally ill children dumped on the wrong hospital wards]( Thousands of children in mental health crisis are being treated on inappropriate general wards – with some forced to stay for more than a year and staff not properly trained to care for them, shocking new data reveals. New figures uncovered by The Independent show at least 2,838 children needing mental health care were admitted to non-psychiatric hospitals last year as the NHS battled with a lack of specialist staff and a surge in patients. Children with eating disorders – who often need to be restrained to be fed through tubes – are among those being routinely put on general wards. It means staff without any specialist training, including security guards, are sometimes left to restrain these young patients. 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