Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children were (a) referred to a CAMHS service and (b) accepted by a CAMHS services for each (i) clinical commissioning group area and (ii) trust in each of the last 12 months.

The attached tables show information on the number of children, aged 0-18 years, referred to children and adolescent mental health services, both by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and by provider. Data is provided for the financial year 2017-18.

Information is not collected on whether children and adolescent mental health services accept referrals.

Note:

These data needed to be interpreted with caution. This is a count of the referrals and not children, one person may have had more than one referral within a given month. The data provided may not be complete. NHS Digital review the quality and completeness of the submissions used to create these statistics on an ongoing basis. More detailed information on the quality and completeness of these statistics and a summary of how these statistics may be interpreted is made available in our Mental Health Bulletin: Annual Report publication series.