Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

(asked on 22nd March 2022) - 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 holds evidence of how CAMHS services in each local authority are prioritising the mental health needs of young people who are (a) on a child protection plan, (b) in the care system and (c) care leavers under 18; and what recent estimate he has made of the average waiting time for those known to social services to receive mental health support.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 30th March 2022

The information requested is not held centrally. Local commissioners and mental health providers are expected to consider the needs of children and young people in the local population in planning and service delivery, including those on a child protection plan, in the care system and care leavers.

No specific estimate has been made of the average waiting times for those known to social services to receive mental health support. A national access and waiting times standard for child and adolescent mental health services has not yet been defined.

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