Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 20th December 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the resources allocated to the NHS Long Term Plan will be dedicated to reduce waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services.
The following table shows, in cash terms, the total additional funding available in each year above what was available in 2018/19:
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Long Term Plan funding for children’s and young people’s mental health - £ billion | £0 | £0.193 | £0.267 | £0.389 | £0.538 | £0.739 |
NHS Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit - £ billion, excluding. depreciation and impairment | £0 | £6.2 | £12.4 | £18.7 | £25.4 | £33.9 |
Source: NHS England
This funding will support local organisations to maintain and build on the two existing waiting time standards for children and young people with eating disorders and for those experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
Funding for generic children’s and young people’s mental health community services, however, has been allocated on the basis of increased activity rather than on waiting times.