{"id":475454,"date":"2026-06-04T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475454\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:59:10","slug":"teen-was-anything-but-safe-in-chalkhill-mental-health-unit-says-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475454\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen was &#8216;anything but safe&#8217; in Chalkhill mental health unit, says mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dale said when he met Lucy&#8217;s family, he was &#8220;completely shocked&#8221; by the experiences he heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The care at the unit wasn&#8217;t delivered consistently in a way that we would aspire to in terms of being compassionate, thoughtful and inclusive of those using the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Explaining what had gone wrong at Chalkhill, he said the issue was complicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of it has to do with the fact that our estates were substandard and it was difficult to make improvements whilst the hospital was open,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But some of it is also about the clinical model that people were working with, and by that I mean the ways the different staff work together, the way we involve families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust plans to re-open the unit towards the end of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will be opening with an entirely new team,&#8221; Dale said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will be also drawing on our parents and young people in appointing that team and supporting them in reopening it, and the running of the hospital going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale said when he met Lucy&#8217;s family, he was &#8220;completely shocked&#8221; by the experiences he heard. He said:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-475454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}