Recommendation 6

The Committee is further concerned that an over-reliance on threshold setting and gatekeeping risks resulting in many individuals being unable to access the support they need at the appropriate time, leading to a situation where these individuals will then present themselves at a later stage having reached a state of crisis, which can be considerably more difficult and costly to treat. The Committee concludes that, although perhaps understandable when trying to deal with consistently high demand, such an approach to managing access to pathways risks being counterproductive in the longer term.