Sally Burke’s child is one of many seriously ill youngsters sent to hospitals far from home after the closure of local inpatient units
It is a 118-mile round trip between Sally Burke’s home in Hull and the mental health unit in Sheffield where her 13-year-old daughter, Maisie, has been staying for the past four months.
Burke listens to loud music on the long journey home “to drain out the feelings of horror of leaving Maisie when she doesn’t want to be left”. She makes the journey three or four times a week, but says the distance makes it impossible to give her daughter the support she needs.
Trying to look after her when she is 60 miles away is not possible. The suffering is wrong. It's cruel
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