Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to this special mini series of Paul Foot Award shortlisted special bonus

episodes of page 94. This is going to be the second in the series and

it's another absolutely fantastic story. We are building up to the very

exciting Paul Foot Award next week and before long we will be able to find out which of these stories

has won the coveted award to be honest they're all extremely good pieces of

investigative journalism so let's without further ado find out who our second shortlisted entrant is.

My name is Justine Smith and I'm freelance but I primarily write for The House magazine. The story is an investigation into the crisis in Cams, children's

and adolescent mental health services. How did it first come to your attention? I took

time out of journalism to adopt three children, so I'm one of the families that's been affected by this

and when you have children like that you come across lots more families and I came to realize just how

Serious the situation was and I see every day the impact of my

family other people's families and so I thought this needs looking at you know how

big is this problem how long are the weight is this universal is this

local so yeah I suggested it's my editor he was really interested like

like thankfully and so I for I for I'd so I had 70 providers

yeah to So I've had 70 providers. Wow.

Yeah, it took quite a lot of work to get all those results in.

Yeah, that was one of the things I wanted to ask about.

But before I do, can I just ask, so was this the kind of journalism you were working in before?

Was this a bit of a departure?

I was a news reporter and feature reporter on the Nationals.

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