Mental Health Services
(asked on 5th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure funding for (a) bespoke parent-infant relationship and (b) perinatal mental health support is directed to local services.
75 local authorities in England are participating in the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme. Approximately £92.8 million of the £100 million investment for perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationship support is being allocated to these local authorities for them to improve their local offer. The Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme Guide sets clear expectations that the money should be used to enhance local services and funding is allocated for activities set out in agreed delivery plans. The Programme Guide is available at the following link:
The remaining funding is being held centrally to commission a series of national initiatives to support local delivery. These include training programmes for evidence-based parent infant relationship interventions to improve staff capability and a national centre for supervision that will enable practitioners to access high quality clinical supervision.