Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

(asked on 23rd 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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that the (a) referral process and (b) self-referral process for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services is consistent across NHS trusts in England.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022

Models of delivery and service configuration are locally determined. Arrangements for referral and self-referral processes are the responsibility of professionals and children and young people’s mental health services. NHS England and NHS Improvement expect local areas to have clear referral and self-referral processes in place, which consider the needs of the young person.

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