Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been accepted by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of referrals accepted by child and adolescent mental health services in Salford in each month from 2020/21 up to December 2024, the month for which most recent data is available:
Month | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 |
April | 267 | 196 | 287 | 127 | 75 |
May | 325 | 304 | 269 | 171 | 84 |
June | 301 | 386 | 223 | 156 | 101 |
July | 385 | 378 | 158 | 127 | 130 |
August | 194 | 243 | 336 | 78 | 121 |
September | 317 | 243 | 277 | 153 | 175 |
October | 366 | 262 | 295 | 123 | 161 |
November | 343 | 340 | 277 | 107 | 176 |
December | 302 | 246 | 305 | 118 | 117 |
January |
| 283 | 265 | 126 | 107 |
February |
| 269 | 300 | 173 | 106 |
March |
| 316 | 288 | 170 | 169 |
Source: NHS England
The following table shows the number of referrals accepted by child and adolescent mental health services in Wigan in each month from 2020/21 up to December 2024, the month for which most recent data is available:
Month | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 |
April | 125 | 51 | 100 | 44 | 4 |
May | 130 | 111 | 97 | 27 | 5 |
June | 118 | 96 | 87 | 30 | 12 |
July | 79 | 92 | 53 | 41 | 20 |
August | 50 | 45 | 39 | 39 | 23 |
September | 117 | 72 | 62 | 18 | 34 |
October | 166 | 107 | 66 | 34 | 30 |
November | 163 | 118 | 87 | 53 | 28 |
December | 97 | 108 | 46 | 34 | 25 |
January |
| 136 | 82 | 95 | 25 |
February |
| 115 | 63 | 75 | 34 |
March |
| 132 | 91 | 97 | 40 |
Source: NHS England