A mother has told of her four-year battle to get mental health support for her daughter – which left the parent feeling suicidal and referring herself to social care.
Jill Harrison, 46, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, told the Daily Mail her 11-year-old Amber, who she called an 'absolute peach', is only now getting the help she needs.
They have been handed from service to service, all the while her beloved child, known to her family affectionately as 'Ambi Bambi', has expressed suicidal thoughts and screamed, cried and bashed her head on her way to school.
At one stage, the full-time mother even referred herself to social care for a child in need assessment: 'I've said, "I'm actually concerned, I'm putting a safeguarding request in from my own family, that's how desperate I am".'
And even that ended up causing more harm than good: 'Even them, they, honestly, come in, they're intrusive.
