The Queensland LNP government has scrapped a new purpose-built clinic for children’s mental health in Yeronga, despite months ago putting aside more than $3 million for it to go ahead.

The Labor government announced in 2020 that an $8.5 million Child and Youth Community Health Hub would be built to house the Child and Youth Mental Health Service and a service to address eating disorders.

The clinics moved temporarily from their old sites in Yeronga and Greenslopes to Mount Gravatt while the new Yeronga hub was built – a project that suffered delays during the COVID period.

But this week staff were informed the purpose-built hub would be scrapped, and the mental health clinic could not move back to its original location in an old Queenslander on Park Road at Yeronga.

The news came after

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