Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Hinchliffe (Labour), on Tuesday, 22 October 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 74 members in total.

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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

That this House welcomes the launch of Community Care magazine's, Changing Minds Campaign, to expand and improve mental health services for children and young people; calls for increased funding in these services; is alarmed that there is almost no specialist provision and few community-based services available to this group; notes that such services were specifically called for by the predecessor Health Committee both in its report into The Provision of NHS Mental Health Services (HC 373, Session 1999-2000) and in its report into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (HC 26, Session 1996-97); recognises that young people are ending up back in the mental health system as adults with more severe and enduring difficulties; further notes that there is no national policy on where young people with mental health problems should be treated; and calls on the Government to convene a task force to draw up a national strategy for England covering all mental health services for children and young people.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1787 

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Children Mental health services Young people

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk