{"id":213559,"date":"2025-10-10T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213559\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:45:07","slug":"ruth-szymankiewiczs-parents-call-over-mental-health-bill-backed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213559\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Szymankiewicz&#8217;s parents&#8217; call over mental health bill backed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ruth&#8217;s death was a terrible tragedy. She deserved to grow up into a brilliant young woman, with the support and protection she needed from the professionals trusted with her care,&#8221; Dame Rachel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As Children&#8217;s Commissioner, children living in mental health inpatient care have told me about being denied contact with family, with nothing around them resembling the comfort of home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They tell me that, had the right help been given earlier, their circumstances would have been so different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Children must be supported at home wherever possible, never placed long distances from family, with visits from their loved ones whenever they want. This right was wrongly denied to Ruth \u2013 it must never happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ruth&#8217;s death was a terrible tragedy. She deserved to grow up into a brilliant young woman, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-213559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}