Mental Health: Children and Young People
(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on access to specialist children and young people’s mental health provision disaggregated by users’ ages; and what steps he has taken to ensure equality of access for children of different ages.
This question was answered on 3rd December 2020
This information is collected by NHS Digital via the mental health services dataset. However, data cannot be provided in the format requested until an agreed methodology is in place based on recent changes to the way the data is collected.