Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

(asked on 4th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) children and (b) adolescents admitted to out of area mental health beds in 2017-18.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 7th June 2018

This information is not available in the format requested. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Tier 4 Report, NHS England, 2014 includes the latest available analysis of out of area placements for children and young people and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/camhs-tier-4-rep.pdf

On 31 March 2017, NHS England announced the next steps to ensure children and young people do not have to travel far from home for mental health care. As well as funding between 150 and 180 new beds, we are increasing the availability of services in the community to ensure the right beds are in the right place. This includes a programme of work to improve timely treatments in the community for those needing urgent or emergency assessment as well as the development of, and recruitment for, community eating disorder services.

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