Kayleigh Robinson’s little girl was six when she started self-harming. She picked her skin until it bled and, at night, her parents found her rocking on all fours. She got out of bed to find things to chew on – at one point, that was a cheese grater. Her dad slept on the floor because they were so worried.
Robinson’s daughter is one of hundreds of thousands of UK children facing severe mental health struggles. Chronic underfunding for child and adolescent mental health services, often referred to as CAMHS, has left