Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 22nd March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Government's funding plans are for NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the 2021-22 financial year.
The ‘NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24’ sets out detailed plans to increase investment in mental health services over the life of the course of the Plan and how children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending. The Implementation Plan is available at the following link:
On 5 March we announced £79 million to be used to significantly expand children’s mental health services. This funding forms part of the approximately £500 million for mental health and National Health Service workforce announced at the Spending Review in November 2020. This additional funding will allow around 22,500 more children and young people to access community health services; 2,000 more children and young people to access eating disorder services; and a faster increase in the coverage of mental health support teams in schools and colleges over the next financial year.