Question follow-through · 124945
NHS: Arts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of workforce shortages in creative therapies for children and young people.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of workforce shortages in creative therapies for children and young people.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
While no such specific assessment has been made, more young people are being supported to access National Health Service mental health services. In the first 12 months of the Government, nearly 40,000 more children and young people received support compar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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