Question follow-through · 12811
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of (a) children and (b) young people that are waiting for mental health support.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of (a) children and (b) young people that are waiting for mental health support.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
It is unacceptable that too many children and young people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are far too long. That is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across bo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
16 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help protect patients who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.