Offences against Children

(asked on 23rd February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by each clinical commissioning group on evidence-based therapeutic treatment and support for children aged under 18 who have suffered sexual abuse in each of the last three years.


This question was answered on 28th February 2017

The information requested on expenditure is not collected centrally.

In July 2016, NHS England published Children and young people’s mental health Local Transformation Plans - a summary of key themes, which includes information on the development of mental health services for children who have been sexually abused or exploited, as recommended by Future In Mind. The report states, “A significant number of Local Transition Plans referenced child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child sexual abuse (CSA) as a priority”.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/08/cyp-mh-ltp.pdf

The Department is working to improve the evidence base for providers and commissioners around interventions for people who have been abused. This includes developing a transformative health and wellbeing service model for supporting children who have been abused, a cost benefits model for quaternary (over medicalisation) prevention of abuse, an economic model of a trauma-informed healthcare service for young women who have been abused, and commissioned the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to develop a guideline on child abuse and neglect.

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