Mental Health Services: Lincolnshire
(asked on 2nd September 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health support teams there were in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in each year since 2014.
The following table shows the number of mental health support teams in South Holland and the Deepings constituency and Lincolnshire, broken down by district and the year in which they became operational, or are planned to become operational, since 2014:
District | Year the team became operational | Year the team is planned to become operational | |||||
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Lincoln and West Lindsey |
| 2 |
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Boston and East Lindsey |
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| 2 |
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South Hollands and the Deepings |
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| 1 |
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South and North Kesteven |
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| 2 |
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Lincoln South and North Kesteven |
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| 1 |
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East Lindsey |
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| 1 |
Total operational mental health support teams | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Source: NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board.
By 2025, the NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board expects there will be approximately 166 education settings with a mental health support team across Lincolnshire, covering 46% of all maintained or academy settings, and over 66,000 children and young people, or 60% of the total number on roll in Lincolnshire. Since 2021, mental health support teams in Lincolnshire have supported 6,985 pupils.
In addition, the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service has been providing support to children, young people, and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing concerns that do not require specialist intervention from children and young people’s mental health services across the county, and including South Holland and the Deepings, since 2018.