Mental health services for children have been banned from taking on any more patients after inspectors saw many concerns regarding the staffing levels that were present. Inspections have found that those who are part of the mental health wards saw that the service was simply not good enough. They had been rated as being outstanding in the past but right now it would seem that they are not doing well enough. Inspectors are very concerned about what they saw and they are now working hard to try and improve the working conditions as much as possible. Inspectors were concerned enough by what they saw. They know that those who work in a nurse agency or those who are working in a nursing recruitment agency are struggling right now but at the end of the day this is not a good excuse. More needs to be done to try and make sure that people are being given the support that they need because if they aren’t then they are failing the people who they set out to protect. There were serious concerns at the end of the day and a lot of this comes down to the fact that the inspection was unannounced. They wanted to make sure that they took care of the people who were in their residence but at the end of the day they didn’t feel as though they could because of staffing shortages. Inspectors visited all the wards and this happened to include Longview, Larkwood and even the Polar Adolescent unit. The rating had declined because they simply did not have enough people to get the job done properly. This is unfortunate but at the end of the day it highlights the crisis that is happening right now.