Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Black, Asian and Minority ethnic children being referred to specialist care for serious mental health problems in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of children and young people from a non-white ethnic background with at least one contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services. This data collection started in 2017/18, therefore information on previous years is not available.
Year | Number of children and young people |
2017/18 under 18 years old | 39,811 |
2018/19 under 18 years old | 52,588 |
2019/20 0 to 18 years old | 73,804 |
2020/21 0 to 18 years old | 78,109 |
Source: Mental Health Service Data Set, NHS Digital