Mental Health Services: Children
(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2023 to Question 4599 on Mental Health Services: Children, how many people under the age of 18 have been waiting over six months to access CAHMS support in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is not collected at constituency level. The following table shows at a district authority level the number of children and young people aged between zero and 17 years old referred to specialist children and young people’s mental health services and waiting more than 182 days for a first contact at the end of August 2023:
District Authority | Number of children waiting more than 182 days (rounded to the nearest five) |
Central Bedfordshire | 185 |
Bedford | 95 |
Luton | 125 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England