{"id":546429,"date":"2026-03-26T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:58:08","slug":"compensation-scheme-for-families-affected-by-north-kerry-camhs-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546429\/","title":{"rendered":"Compensation scheme for families affected by North Kerry CAMHS to be announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is expected to announce a compensation scheme for families affected by the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after an independent HSE-commissioned report last month found a risk of potential harm in 209 children\u2019s treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Issues identified in the North Kerry CAMHS service included a high rate of prescribing anti-psychotic medicine, with patients sometimes given two or more at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted this was a concerning feature and wasn\u2019t in line with standard practice.<\/p>\n<p>Mental Health Minister Mary Butler said that she will relay details of a compensation scheme for affected families today.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that this will be a non-adversarial route, according to Newstalk.<\/p>\n<p>Butler told the D\u00e1il yesterday that she intends to visit impacted families in North Kerry over the Easter break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is expected to announce a compensation scheme for families affected by the North Kerry Child and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-546429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546429","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=546429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}