Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether postgraduate training level seven will be fully funded and mandatory for people working therapeutically with children and young people on mental health issues.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for commissioning of training for the National Health Service workforce and refer to their plan ‘Stepping Forward to 2020/21: Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’.
All Level 7 postgraduate training for people working therapeutically with children and young people commissioned by HEE is fully funded.
HEE cannot mandate training as it is the responsibility of the professional regulators and employers. HEE can define the curriculum for the training but cannot control the practice.
All training commissioned by HEE for people working therapeutically with children and young people has a set of learning objectives that are underpinned by both evidence based practice and practice based evidence as it is overseen and delivered by senior members of professions pertinent to the practice of psychological therapy.
Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether training programmes designed to equip people working therapeutically with children and young people on mental health will have a set of learning objectives derived from practice-based evidence.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for commissioning of training for the National Health Service workforce and refer to their plan ‘Stepping Forward to 2020/21: Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’.
All Level 7 postgraduate training for people working therapeutically with children and young people commissioned by HEE is fully funded.
HEE cannot mandate training as it is the responsibility of the professional regulators and employers. HEE can define the curriculum for the training but cannot control the practice.
All training commissioned by HEE for people working therapeutically with children and young people has a set of learning objectives that are underpinned by both evidence based practice and practice based evidence as it is overseen and delivered by senior members of professions pertinent to the practice of psychological therapy.
Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to implement the proposals in its 2018 response to the Green Paper on Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
On 20 December 2018, the Government announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites which will trial all three elements of the proposals in the Green Paper.
The first mental health support teams are due to be fully operational by the end of 2019. 12 of the sites will also pilot a four-week waiting time to speed up children and young people’s access to National Health Service mental health services. In addition, the Department for Education will fund a significant new training programme for designated senior leads for mental health in schools and colleges.
The NHS Long Term Plan confirmed the commitment to roll out the proposals to at least 20-25% of the country by the end of 2022/23, subject to learning from the first wave. We are in the process of confirming the next phase of trailblazers.
Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on Government expenditure on mental health provision for children and young people (a) under the age of 18; (b) from 18 to 25 years old in 2018-19.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Information on spend on mental health provision for children and young people aged 0-25, by clinical commissioning group (CCG), is published by NHS England in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard.
NHS England also publishes spend on specialised commissioning on mental health provision for children and young people.
For 2018/19, the latest figures show planned expenditure by CCGs of £727 million and for specialised commissioning planned expenditure of £376 million.
These figures do not distinguish between those aged under the age of 18 and those aged 18 years to 25 years old.