Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) or school counsellor, mental health services need to be accessible via schools. - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Only 8% of mental health services spending was allocated to children and young people’s mental health - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) health services; cutting waiting lists for mental health services by recruiting more staff; introducing - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: health 3.1 The long-term impact of preterm birth on parental mental health is well documented and
Jul. 08 2009
Source Page: Children's services improvement support for local authorities and children's trusts: a national prospectus 2009-10. 94 p.Found: Children's services improvement support for local authorities and children's trusts: a national prospectus
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Boys’ attainment and engagement in educationFound: health needs.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) St Helens North constituency and (b) the North West in the latest period for which data is available; and what steps she is taking to reduce those waiting times.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
Since 2018, we have invested an extra £2.3 billion a year to expand mental health services in England, with the aim of enabling two million more people, including 345,000 more children and young people to access mental health support.
We’re rolling out mental health support teams to schools and colleges. These now cover approximately 35% of pupils and are expected to reach 50% of pupils by March 2025. NHS England is also developing a new waiting time standard for children and their families to receive community-based mental health care within four weeks of referral.
Whilst the relevant data is not available at a constituency level, the following table shows the number of referrals for children and young people aged under 18 years old, supported through National Health Service-funded mental health, and waiting times for first contact between September and November 2023 for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB), North West Commissioning Region, and England:
Location | Number of referrals | Median waiting time between referral start date and first contact | 90th percentile waiting time between referral start date and first contact |
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 8,550 | 21 days | 469 days |
North West Commissioning Region | 26,125 | 11 days | 250 days |
England | 179,295 | 13 days | 225 days |
Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS England
Notes:
The 90th percentile waiting time was 469 days meaning 10% of children and young people who received a first contact in this period waited over 469 days.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of the attendance mentors pilotFound: , mental health or domestic abuse.
Jan. 10 2008
Source Page: Think family: improving the life chances of families at risk. 31 p.Found: from antenatal screening through to intensive assessments in adult mental health, should take into
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to target support to people with adverse childhood experiences to prevent alcohol harm.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
Evidence suggests that adverse childhood experiences are often intergenerational, and while people with adverse childhood experiences are more likely to have grown up in a household where one or both parents were alcohol dependent compared to the general population, their children are also more likely to develop alcohol problems as they get older.
This is why we are investing in vital services to be at the heart of local offers for families. Not only do these services play a pivotal role in keeping more children safe from adverse experiences, with stable loving relationships, they can also help overcome multiple, complex problems within families before they escalate.
We have committed to £1 billion of funding for programmes to improve early help support. This includes around £300 million to fund a new three-year Family Hubs and Start for Life programme. This programme, now in its second year, is delivering a step-change in outcomes for babies, children, parents and carers in 75 local authorities in England with high deprivation. This funding also includes an additional £695 million for the Supporting Families programme, which builds the resilience of vulnerable families by providing effective support for all their underlying and interconnected problems, such as addressing alcohol harms and other adverse childhood experiences.
We are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people, including those with adverse childhood experiences, can get the mental health support that they need. We are also rolling out mental health support teams to schools and colleges across England. The Government is also investing an extra £532 million for local authorities to improve alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services through Drug Strategy funding through to 2024/25. Local authorities are encouraged to develop programmes which provide tailored support to families affected by parental alcohol and drug use with this funding.
Mentions:
1: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) To support them, we are offering all schools and colleges a grant to train a senior mental health lead - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report Children and young people’s mental health services: Targets, progress and barriers to improvement published by the Education Policy Institute on 10 December.
Answered by Lord Markham
We have made no such assessment. However, we are committed to increasing investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by March 2024 and have set out our aim in the NHS Long Term Plan for an additional 345,000 children and young people to be able to get the mental health support they need.
We continue to work with the Department for Education to implement the proposals of the Government’s Transforming children and young people’s mental health green paper. A copy of the green paper is attached.
There are now almost 400 mental health support teams in place in schools and colleges across England. Mental health support teams now cover over three million children or approximately 35% of pupils in schools and colleges. We aim to increase this coverage to 50% by April 2025.