Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 7th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many children and young people received inpatient mental health care from (1) private mental health providers, and how (2) NHS children, adolescent and mental health services (CAMHS), in each of the 10 years preceding October 2022.
The table below details the number of children and young people aged 17 and under receiving inpatient care from National Health Service providers and non-NHS providers. Information for NHS providers is for all mental health inpatient services as there is not a defined or agreed reporting methodology solely for children and adolescent mental health inpatient services.
Year | NHS providers | Non-NHS providers |
2016/17 | 2,429 | 1,075 |
2017/18 | 2,498 | 1,160 |
2018/19 | 2,720 | 1,233 |
2019/20 | 2,731 | 1,028 |
2020/21 | 2,397 | 818 |
2021/22 | 2,161 | 1,012 |
Source: NHS Mental Health Services Data Set
1. This information includes all the children and young people under the age of 18 who have been admitted (i.e. were an inpatient at any point in the year) to Non-NHS and NHS providers.
2. We are not able to provide data prior to 2016 as the children services were not in scope in the previous datasets.
3. The number of providers submitting data has changed over time (i.e. 92 in April 2017 to 350 in April 2022).