Mental Health Services: Young People

(asked on 7th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Public Accounts Committee report, Mental health services for children and young people, published on 11 January 2019, if his Department will publish information on what happens to young people with mental health issues who do not receive any or timely treatment.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 12th June 2019

The Government’s response to the Committee’s report was published in April 2019. In it, the Government accepted the recommendation to provide annual updates to the Committee on various aspects of data relating to young people’s access to mental health services, until April 2022. These will include more reliable statistics as new measures are developed and published.

The Government’s response also provided the latest available information, as far as it is collected and available, as well as showing where this information is routinely published.

Information on outcomes for young people with mental health issues who do not receive any or timely treatment is not collected centrally.

Progress on achieving parity of esteem for children and young people’s mental health services is monitored against key measurables such as access and waiting times standards.

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out how it intends to improve services that support children and young people including those who require mental health services. It commits to growing investment in mental health services faster than the overall NHS budget. Further, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall National Health Service funding and total mental health spending.

The National Implementation Framework, when published, will provide further information on how the commitments set out for children and young people’s mental health in the Plan will be implemented.

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