Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

What steps he is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for children and young people.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 20th March 2018

We are making an additional £1.4 billion available until 2019/20 in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21.

Our recent Green Paper published jointly with the Department for Education, will revolutionise services in schools, bolster links between schools and commits us to pilot a four week waiting time for National Health Service specialist services.

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