A suicidal teenage girl was sent away from a Huddersfield mental health unit without any advice other than to watch TV, her mother has claimed.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, later took an overdose of pain killers.

She survived but went on to spend time in a mental health unit before escaping and attempting to take her own life again.

Now 15, she has been deemed too risky to go to school but has struggled to get help from mental health doctors despite her mother’s pleas.

Her mum, who also cannot be identified, said she was appalled at the lack of support they had received from the Children and Adolescents Mental Health Services (CAMHS) centre at Glen Acre House in Lindley .

She said they had been given an emergency appointment in July last year following a sudden deterioration of her daughter’s mental health.

But when they arrived she said staff did not seem interested in getting her urgent care despite knowing her daughter had made four previous attempts on her life.

The woman, who hails from the Dewsbury area , has now hit out at the shocking lack of support for her daughter, who she revealed was abused as a child and had been struggling with bullying at school.

She said: “My daughter had got very depressed and she had quite a lot of things going on in her life.

“She had started taking overdoses.

“In July last year her school got quite concerned about her mental health and called me and got us an emergency appointment at CAMHS.

“She didn’t get to see a psychiatrist, just a nurse, and they said there was nothing they could do, they just told my daughter to go home and sit herself down in front of the telly.

“But she was hearing voices telling her to kill herself.

“She came home and in the middle of the night she took loads of paracetamol.

“I didn’t know until the day after and I took her to Dewsbury A&E.

“She was in hospital for three weeks in the children’s ward as they couldn’t find a bed for her.

“I refused to bring her home and the hospital backed me.”

A place at a mental health centre in Leeds was eventually found for the vulnerable girl – but she escaped and had to be hunted down by police.

Her mum said: “She took another overdose and ended up back in hospital and then back at the mental health unit but for some reason they decided to discharge her.

“She went back to school and they’ve been keeping a close eye on her but two weeks ago she ran away from school saying she was going to hang herself.

“The school has now said they can’t keep her safe and so she can’t go in.

“She sitting at home and she’s falling behind with school.”

The desperate mum said it felt like no-one cared.

“My daughter is poorly and nobody is helping,” she said.

Tim Breedon, director of nursing, clinical governance and safety at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust , who are responsible for mental health services in Kirklees, acknowledged they had seen the teenager.

He said: “The concerns raised into the services provided by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Kirklees have been investigated by the trust and the service is currently working closely with the family.

“The trust’s customer services team welcomes feedback and actively seeks the views of people who use our services.

“We encourage her to meet with our customer services team to share any concerns and help us to address this feedback appropriately.”

Since the Examiner inquired about the case the teenager has now been given a number of appointments with the CAMHS service.

The mother has also been advised to call charity Young Minds on 0808 8025544.

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