Mental Health Services: Children

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Black, Asian and Minority ethnic children being referred to specialist care for serious mental health problems in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 14th March 2022

The following table shows the number of children and young people from a non-white ethnic background with at least one contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services. This data collection started in 2017/18, therefore information on previous years is not available.

Year

Number of children and young people

2017/18 under 18 years old

39,811

2018/19 under 18 years old

52,588

2019/20 0 to 18 years old

73,804

2020/21 0 to 18 years old

78,109

Source: Mental Health Service Data Set, NHS Digital

  1. Data specific to secondary mental health services and specific mental health condition type is not separately identifiable.
  2. Comparisons between years should be made with caution as the number of providers submitting data has increased. For instance, in 2017/18 this increased from 110 providers to 178 in 2018/19 and to 302 in 2019/20.
  3. Does not include records where ethnicity has been recorded as either 'Not Stated' or 'Not Known' or is unknown.
  4. The source statistics are classified as experimental and undergoing evaluation and should be used with caution.
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