Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address the reported rise in the number of children suffering from mental health issues.
This Government is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
The Department is working with NHS England and other partners to consider how best to drive forward transformation in children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme is already being expanded to cover additional areas of clinical practice, so that by 2018 children and young people across all of England will have access to evidence based psychotherapies. The Department is also commissioning a new national survey on the prevalence of mental health problems in children and young people, the first since 2004.