Mental Health Services: Children

(asked on 4th February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Sadiq Khan
(Labour - Tooting)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 16 were treated in adult psychiatric wards in (a) England, (b) London, (c) each London borough and (d) each London health trust in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 9th February 2016

Whilst we do not have figures for how many young people were treated in adult mental health wards, the data below shows the number under the age of 16 who were admitted to adult mental health wards. These figures may therefore include children who have been admitted when their parents are treated, e.g. a mother for a perinatal mental health condition.

Provider code

Description

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

England

97

47

23

43

75

London

5

10

*

*

*

RRP

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

*

10

*

*

*

TAF

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RV3

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RWK

East London NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RAT

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RPG

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RV5

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RQY

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RNK

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

*

*

*

*

*

RKL

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

*

*

*

*

*

At subnational level, data is always rounded to the nearest five out of respect for the privacy of the individuals concerned. For the same reason, we do not release exact figures where these are less than five.

This means that since 2012/13 there have never been five or more young people under 16 admitted to adult mental health wards in London in any given year. This reflects the fact that following increased government investment there are now more inpatient beds (‘Tier 4’) in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services than ever before.

These figures are published in the annual Mental Health Bulletin, which can be found at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/mhldsreports

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