Mental health units for most mentally unwell children across the country struggle to staff wards, admits official ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz died after she was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health hospital by an inexperienced agency ...

More than half of a mental health ward's staff were absent on the day a teenager who should have been under constant ...

Mark Szymankiewicz said his daughter Ruth was "punished not helped or supported" while at Huntercombe Hospital, near ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, had been placed under strict one-to-one observation at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire.

Ellesha Brannigan told an inquest that her team at Huntercombe Hospital had to bring in staff from another ward so staff could take breaks.

Ruth Szymankiewicz was being treated at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was able to shut herself inside her room and self-harmed.