Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the National Quality Improvement Taskforce for children and young people’s mental health inpatient services' has to include the transition to adult services in its remit; and what steps the Taskforce will take to ensure service improvements are carried over to adult services.

The taskforce has been set up to ensure inpatient services deliver timely, safe and high quality care for children and young people, including a focus on well-planned discharge to home or other appropriate services.

Transition from inpatient child and young people’s services to adult services will be considered as part of this work with the aim of ensuring decisions are based on the individual needs and circumstances of the young person. This should ensure appropriate preparation for transition of the children and young people and cross-organisational preparation for appropriate receipt into adult services.