Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Baroness Tyler of Enfield Excerpts
Monday 25th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Portrait Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
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The outcomes will be monitored by NHS England, but also by the CCGs. Of course, they will be taken into account by local authorities as well.

Baroness Tyler of Enfield Portrait Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD)
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My Lords, given the fragmentation and lack of co-ordination on the ground between local mental health services, what assessment have the Government made of the potential benefits of establishing local offers for mental health, mirroring the approach to local offers for special educational needs introduced by the Children and Families Act, to improve access?