Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure holistic formulation based assessment is provided to children and young people with mental health problems.

Health Education England, in partnership with NHS England, funds the delivery of a suite of therapist interventions and modalities for existing and new staff working within National Health Service commissioned services for children and young people’s mental health known as the Children’s and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) portfolio.

The CYP IAPT portfolio, as a whole, through this training supports the provision of a holistic formulation based assessment to children and young people with mental health problems.