Care Leavers: Mental Health Services
(asked on 20th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that care leavers receive specialist mental health assessments.
This question was answered on 13th January 2017
The health, including mental health, of children in care is currently assessed when they enter and leave care. The Expert Working Group on looked-after children’s mental, co-chaired by Professor Peter Fonagy and Alison O’Sullivan, is considering a wide range of issues including what kind of assessments are needed and when. The Expert Working Group is expected to finish its work in October 2017.