Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Monday 2nd February 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Which is the best CAMHS service in the country, why can it do it when others cannot, and what is stopping its best practice from being copied?

Norman Lamb Portrait Norman Lamb
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My hon. Friend makes an important point, and there are many excellent mental health services, as the hon. Member for somewhere in Birmingham—[Interruption.]—for Halesowen and Rowley Regis (James Morris), said earlier. If some areas can do things well with the available resources, then other areas can too. It is also true that some areas have chosen to cut funding for children’s mental health, in my view inappropriately.