'The system hasn’t helped me since I was 6 years old. Since my Mum asked to get me help and I’m still not getting the help!'
A woman who has been in care for most of her life has been “failed” by the state, a damning investigation has found.
It criticised the Western Health and Social Care Trust, which was her legal ‘parent’, for a raft of systemic failings. The ‘Looked After? A formal investigation into the life of a child in the care of the state’ report is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. The report said the health trust did not find accommodation for Vicky after she was granted bail. Instead she went to the Juvenile Justice Centre. But she was left there for almost a year, until just after her 17th birthday when she was placed in a medium secure mental health facility in England. There is currently no plan in place for her to return to Northern Ireland. A lack of suitable accommodation in Northern Ireland is a key issue raised in the report.
She said: “When we were alerted to the fact that a child with a learning disability and mental health issues, who was in the care of the State, had been in the Juvenile Justice Centre on remand for the best part of a year, I made the decision that we would formally investigate. I deployed the .strongest powers my office has to understand how the situation arose and what, if any, breaches of her rights had occurred.
An action plan should be agreed, the report added, and implemented based on the assessment. Suitable accommodation and support services should be identified and secured as close to her hometown as is feasible. A place should be available within a two-month deadline of Vicky being assessed, it continued.
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