Mental Health Services: Cornwall

(asked on 22nd July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been accepted by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Cornwall in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Stephen Kinnock Portrait
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 5th August 2024

The following table shows the number of referrals for those aged 17 years old and under at the time of referral to mental health services in the Cornwall local authority, for each of the last five years:

Reporting Period

Number of new referrals

Number of new referrals that received a first contact (contact can occur at any point within the referral)

Number of referrals starting in the year that subsequently received a first contact over 6 months from the referral request date

2019/20

6,301

3,414

378

2020/21

6,592

3,691

292

2021/22

8,294

4,806

533

2022/23

10,497

4,851

224

2023/24

13,646

6,330

50

Source: Mental Health Services Dataset

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