I think we need more info on why they are closing and what they had been active doing please

Interesting public policy measure. Is it based on any evidence? My personal experience in the US at a busy crisis center that does voluntary/involuntary emergency psychiatric evaluations 24/7 is that closing down our service would have only a slight effect on acute inpatient referrals. The police, hospital emergency departments, families, providers, and prospective patients would present directly to the nearest psychiatric facility intake portal. If anything, eliminating the screening function (i.e., identifying cases not meeting the conditions of medical necessity for psychiatric hospitalization) performed by the assessment centers would result in more inappropriate requests for inpatient care at the hospitals' intakes. A better solution might be to have community-based services try to resolve crises before they trigger mental illness symptoms and possibly escalate to a psychiatric emergency. Also many requests/referrals for acute hospitalization are the result of either an outpatient provider not wanting to deal with a patient or the patient/family not wanting to wait for an appointment, fill an Rx, or just avail themselves of the respite, shelter, socialization, and attention that accompany admission.

Have recently reviewed a paper for a journal that highlights in a European country that the opening of an emergency centre reduces admissions