Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

(asked on 9th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 21 of the Education Policy Institute's report, Access to children and young people's mental health services - 2018, published in October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for policies of the finding that there was no or limited follow-up involving the CAMHS providers of referrals including cases involving self harm.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 15th October 2018

Where a local National Health Service children and young people’s mental health service rejects a referral, the young person or their carers should be signposted to appropriate support elsewhere, as not all referrals are appropriate for NHS specialist help. We are increasing access to NHS services and aim for an additional 70,000 children and young people a year to receive access to specialist mental health treatment by 2020/21, and we have put the first waiting time standards in place for children and young people’s mental health.

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