Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard, when his Department plans to publish data relating to the indicator, proportion of children and young people aged 0 to 18 inclusive meeting their mutually agreed goals against the number of children and young pepple accessing services.

NHS England is working in collaboration with the Department, NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to improve the data available to track progress in mental health services, however this will take time. The mental health dashboard pulls together in the public domain, for the first time, measures across mental health services. The mental health dashboard will develop alongside our work to deliver against the recommendations in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.

The mental health dashboard includes a number of ‘placeholder’ measures and a further list of measures which will be added to future versions of the dashboard. These placeholder measures, including children and young adults showing reliable improvement, children and young people meeting mutually agreed goals, outcome measures for perinatal mental health, and perinatal mental health waiting times, are expected to be developed over the course of the next year with a view to including these in the dashboard in 2017/18. These measures require further development to define exactly how they will be constructed and some will need to be built on data which is not currently routinely collected across the National Health Service. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to ensure that the data reported is robust.

Progress is being made on reporting against clinical commissioning group (CCG) spend in a number of areas of mental health. CCG spend on perinatal mental health is expected to be published in early 2017.