Mental Health Services: Children

(asked on 21st October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to (a) support children’s mental health and (b) allocate adequate funding children's mental health support services as part of covid-19 recovery planning.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 3rd November 2020

We remain committed to investing at least £2.3billion of extra funding a year in mental health services for all ages by 2023/24, and we remain committed to implementing the proposals of the children and young people’s mental health Green Paper, including putting mental health support teams in schools and colleges.

These commitments mean that an additional 345,000 children and young people will be able to access mental health support via National Health Service-funded mental health services and schools-based mental health support teams, if they need them.

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