Aryan Akhgar

“5.1 A gap in services was identified for 16 and 17 years old's with urgent mental health issues, such as [the deceased] had. On 9th January 2018, [the deceased] was assessed as requiring urgent mental health input, commencing the next day. This was not available as a service for under 18's in Sheffield and [the deceased] did not receive any contact from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) until 15th January 2018. In evidence I was told that additional resources in the CAMHS service were close to agreement in order”

“It was accepted in evidence by the Medical Director of the Sheffield Children's Hospital on behalf of CAMHS that such additional resource was required. The delivery of the necessary funding to properly resource the CAMHS team was not guaranteed.”