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Mental Health Services: Gateshead

Answer

The following table shows the number of referrals for those children aged between 0 and 17 years old at the time of referral to mental health services in Gateshead local authority between 2019/20 and 2023/24:

Reporting Period	Number of new referrals	Number of new referrals that received a first contact (contact can occur at any point within the referral)
2019/20	2,415	1,745
2020/21	2,420	1,755
2021/22	4,130	2,695
2022/23	4,150	2,260
2023/24	6,940	2,225

Source: Mental Health Dataset, NHS England

Notes:

1. The definition of by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the dataset is not clear cut and also the methodology for deriving CAMHS changes over time. As such, the use of age at referral is the most reliable way of defining those referred to CAMHS.
2. The number provided includes all new referrals in each year where the person was a resident of the local authority of Gateshead. In addition, the number of referrals which have had a contact is included to provide context around the numbers of referrals which have been received and subsequently had a care contact.
3. For some referrals it may not be expected that a contact would be recorded. For example, in some circumstances, referrals are received by triage teams. These referrals are subsequently closed without a contact with a new referral opened once triaged.
4. In some scenarios, referral IDs are being re-used. For the purposes of this analysis, the care contact must take place within the same referral for the same person, as such a small number of contacts may not be included within a specific referral but this is a data quality issue.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

3280

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Children Mental health services Young people Gateshead

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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