Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the availability of community-based mental health support in order to reduce the level of reliance on inpatient care for children and young people in Surrey Heath constituency.

Our ambition is to avoid unnecessary admissions to children and young people’s mental health inpatient services and provide care close to home in the least restrictive environments. NHS England’s new model for specialised children and young people’s mental health services will support the delivery of specialised services in the community by establishing and expanding local services such as day services, intensive community outreach and hospital at home services that will provide timely assessment, reduce lengths of inpatient stay and wrap care around the family to achieve timely discharge.