Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Anna Turley and Vicky Foxcroft

Tuesday 20th March 2018 Commons Chamber

[Anna Turley (Redcar) (Lab/Co-op)]

10. What estimate he has made of the number of young people who have not had access to child and adolescent mental health services after a referral in the last 12 months.

[Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford) (Lab)]

22. What estimate he has made of the number of young people who have not had access to child and adolescent mental health services after a referral in the last 12 months.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Jackie Doyle-Price)]

We estimate that of the approximately 460,000 referrals made to children and young people’s NHS mental health services per year, 200,000 children receive treatment and many are appropriately signposted to other help. Treatment within the NHS is determined by clinical need and it is vital for all to remember that specialist services are not always appropriate for those referred. That said, we are committed to treating 70,000 more children and young people each year by 2020-21.