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 Trafford in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of referrals to Trafford mental health services for those aged 17 years old and under, as well as the number of those referrals who received first contact, in each of the last five years:
Year | Referrals | Referrals who received first contact |
2019/20 | 3,987 | 1,868 |
2020/21 | 4,852 | 2,559 |
2021/22 | 6,677 | 3,362 |
2022/23 | 4,835 | 3,132 |
2023/24 | 4,982 | 2,798 |
Source: data taken from the Mental Health Services Dataset, published by NHS England.