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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

Answer

Investment in mental health is increasing, and being spent and this Government has prioritised mental health for children and young people. We are making an additional £1.4 billion available over 2015/16 – 2019/20 which is being used to expand and improve mental health services for children and young people.

The recently published Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper on 4 December 2017 contains proposals to further increase early intervention and support for children and young people experiencing or at risk of mental health problems. The proposals as set out in the Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health would cost £215 million over the next three years towards the creation of Mental Health Support Teams, piloting a four week waiting time standard and rolling out mental health first aid training to primary schools.

We will make funding available to fund the full cost of the final proposals. We will also provide up to £15-20 million each year from 2019 to cover costs of training Designated Senior Leads in schools and colleges, until all schools and colleges have had the chance to train a lead (we expect total funding to be up to £95 million).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

118069

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Children Finance Mental health services Young people

Link

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