Eating Disorders: Children and Young People

(asked on 8th June 2020) - 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 improve the provision of support services for children and young people with eating disorders.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 16th June 2020

The Government is committed to ensuring everyone with an eating disorder has access to timely treatment based on clinical need. We set up the first waiting times to improve access to eating disorders services for children and young people - so that by 2020/21 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases. We are on track to meet that standard.

The Government is investing £150 million to improve services for children and young people with mental health problems, with a particular emphasis on eating disorders. We are making good on this promise, and as a result 70 dedicated new or extended community services are now either open or in development. These are designed to give young people with eating disorders and self-harm early access to services in their communities with properly trained teams, including extended access to talking therapies.

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