Families left out of Kerry CAMHS scheme take legal action
Families of children who received deficient care from Kerry CAMHS are taking legal action after being excluded from a state compensation scheme. While many affected families received compensation, those who raised concerns individually rather than through specific inquiries have been denied access to the fund.
Why it matters
This highlights significant administrative failures in state-run healthcare compensation programs and the resulting legal burden on vulnerable families.
Around a dozen families whose children received apologies for deficiencies in their care by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Kerry are being excluded from a State compensation scheme, leading them to take High Court actions instead.
In the case of at least one family, a child whose care was accepted as deficient has been deemed to be ineligible for the compensation scheme, while a number of his siblings have been accepted into the same scheme and have received compensation.
Following separate reviews into care offered by CAMHS in Kerry, the State established a compensation scheme for those affected, first in South Kerry and later in North Kerry, once the reviews were completed there.
Parents and children whose care was found to have been deficient were called to meetings by the HSE, where they received formal apologies.
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