{"id":239547,"date":"2025-11-02T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239547\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:08:08","slug":"west-sussex-county-councils-child-mental-health-services-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239547\/","title":{"rendered":"West Sussex County Council&#8217;s child mental health services merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Sussex County Council has brought its mental health services for children and their families together under one &#8220;psychological hub&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One leadership team will now run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsussex.gov.uk\/social-care-and-health\/social-care-and-health-information-for-professionals\/children\/referrals-to-the-psychological-hub\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the services, external<\/a>, which can be accessed by a healthcare referral, according to the local authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hub &#8220;aims to help families stay together&#8221; and &#8220;support children through complex emotional and mental health challenges&#8221;, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It includes therapy pods based at the council&#8217;s Horsham office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Sussex County Council has brought its mental health services for children and their families together under one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}