Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) parents, (b) adoptive parents and (c) kinship carers of young people requiring additional Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services treatment in (a) the City of York and (b) the UK.

The Children and Young People’s Green Paper, published by the Government in 2017, highlighted the importance of supporting families with children at risk of developing mental health problems in England. We have therefore commissioned further research into engaging vulnerable families in parenting and parental conflict programmes, and how local areas can encourage evidence-based commissioning of interventions aimed at supporting parents and carers.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust provides support based on need for all parents and guardians of children in York who need to access mental health services.