Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 18 January 2022.

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Photo of Laura Trott Laura Trott Conservative, Sevenoaks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support he will provide to mental health support teams in response to increased pressures on CAMHS.

Photo of Gillian Keegan Gillian Keegan Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

In March 2021, we announced an additional £79 million to expand children’s mental health services in 2021/22. A portion of this funding will be used to accelerate the delivery of mental health support teams in schools and colleges to provide coverage of approximately 20 to 25% of pupils in England by 2022 and an estimated three million pupils or 35% by 2023. The funding will also accelerate the expansion of child and adolescent mental health services in the community, allowing an additional 22,500 children and young people to receive more specialist support.

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