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Can anyone advise re the following scenario?

We have an employee who has been having problems with his son - aged 13yrs – big boy physically, mental health and eating disorder. They have everyone involved including the GP, police and mental health teams. The child is violent and has now been permanently excluded from school. He is supposed to attend counselling daily but is not co-operating. The parents normally work while he’s at school but now one will have to stay at home to look after the child and supervise him. He’s violent and abusive and is now hiding things under his bed – including knives so parents even more worried he will hurt himself or them.

The parents are at the end of their coping capacity and don’t know where to go for help of what to do next. The situation is affecting the employee’s mental health to the point where he is desperate crying on the phone to manager at wits end basically.

Does anyone have any ideas where to go for help? I have supplied various sources of support and our EAP, but what they need is the child sectioning but they won’t do it!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Jackie Muir

Group Occupational Health Manager

Kier Group

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