Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 December 2017 to Question 120088, on Mental Health Services: Children and Young People, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the level of local authority funding on the provision of child and adolescent mental health services in (a) Lewisham constituency, (b) Southwark, (c) London and (d) England; and how his Department plans to make good any shortfalls resulting from those changes.
In England, the Department and NHS England are investing an additional £1.4 billion by 2019/20 to support the implementation of the Future in Mind transformation programme.
Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Southwark CCG advise that they are working with the local authorities in Lewisham and Southwark to review local service provision jointly, using the transformation funding to improve and develop services.