Edinburgh mum who lost daughter to suicide slams 'disgraceful' mental health wait timesBereaved parents have blasted “disgraceful” delays in children’s mental health care, warning lives are being put at risk. Ruth Moss, 54, from Edinburgh, lost her 13-year-old daughter Sophie to suicide in 2014 after struggling to get mental health support. Despite being referred urgently to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Sevirces (CAMHS), her case was deemed to be “non-urgent”. We are in the grip of a mental health crisis and these statistics should be seen as more than just numbers. She said: “A larger number of people than ever before require mental health support, but under the SNP we have a record number of staff employed to do just that with our mental health budget set to exceed £1.5bn this year.
