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Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to specialist mental health support for disabled children who are (a) victims of and (b) witnesses to serious crime.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
9 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to specialist mental health support for disabled children who are (a) victims of and (b) witnesses to serious crime.

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Many children and young people (CYP) face complex emotional and mental health challenges arising from trauma.Over the next decade, to deliver the Government’s missions, the National Health Service will play a key part in addressing the needs of these chil...

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