Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 2nd October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals were made to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in England in each year from 2014-15 to 2018-19.
Information on the number of child and adolescent mental health referrals in England is available in the following table. This information was not collected prior to 2016/17.
Year | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
England | 204,022 | 281,429 | 396,841 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset - NHS Digital
Notes: A person may be referred more than once during any given year.
Annual figures are not directly comparable as the number of providers submitting data has increased year on year.