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Banksia Mental Health Unit: government draws up plans for children's beds, Child and Adolescents Safeguard Team

Andrew Messenger
December 18 2021 - 5:30am
BREAK-THROUGH: The state government has drawn up plans for four children's mental health beds in the new Banksia Mental Health Unit, plus premises for an outreach team which would bring juvenile care to children across the region. Photo: Peter Hardin, file
BREAK-THROUGH: The state government has drawn up plans for four children's mental health beds in the new Banksia Mental Health Unit, plus premises for an outreach team which would bring juvenile care to children across the region. Photo: Peter Hardin, file

The NSW government is poised to fill a decades-old hole in mental health care in the New England and North West regions, which forces children to travel to Newcastle to receive care.

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Andrew Messenger

Andrew Messenger

Northern Daily Leader journalist

Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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