Barriers for mental health services for children and adolescents are too high, according to the Care Quality Commission.
The regulator has produced a report that says schools, local authorities, and the NHS are not working together as well as they might, and the barriers to getting care are unacceptably high.
Despite recent commitments to better funding and government proposals to establish mental health teams in schools, the report said that these would not be enough to achieve the scale of change needed.