The Government is committed to transforming the future of mental health services for children and young people, as you can see in the report, Future in Mind (Click here to see the report).
Local areas have produced Local Transformation Plans to improve the way these services are commissioned and delivered. This change is being supported by £1.25 billion of additional government investment. It is expected, by 2020, that this will help an extra 70,000 children and young people every year. The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, recently announced a new mental health pilot scheme, working in hundreds of schools to make sure children and young people have better access to local specialist mental health provision and support that is consistent across services.
We are also introducing a new waiting time standard for the treatment of young people with eating disorders as well as an extra £150 million of investment, to ensure that young people get the support they need, when they need it.
Finally, the Government has also set up the first ever cross-Government Ministerial Child Protection Taskforce to overhaul the way police, schools, social services and others work together in tackling this abuse. It will build on the Government’s wide-ranging reforms to create a care system that puts children’s needs first.
By Patrick McLoughlin on February 16, 2016