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Recommendation 5
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The Department of Health and Social Care—in partnership with the Department for Education and all...
Conclusion
The Department of Health and Social Care—in partnership with the Department for Education and all other relevant Government departments—must take radical steps to shift the focus in mental health provision towards early intervention and prevention. This must ensure that all children and young people under the age of 25 can receive mental health support as early as possible and no young person is turned away from mental health support for not being ill enough. The Department must focus its attention on: Children and young people’s mental health 55 a) the faster roll out of Mental Health Support Teams, as detailed in Chapter 3 of this report; b) a network of community hubs based on the Youth Information Advice and Counselling service model detailed in Chapter 4 of this report and; c) digital support, as detailed in Chapter 4 of this report.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
47. We accept this recommendation in part. 48. Although record numbers of children and young people are accessing support and the NHS exceeded the ambitions of the 5 Year Forward View for Mental Health nationally, we are committed to supporting systems and services to address local variation. 49. As part of our commitment to transparency, NHSEI will continue to publish local progress on access and spend through the NHS mental health dashboard , through which we make available information about the number of children and young people nationally, regionally, and in clinical commissioning group areas, who are accessing support with NHS-funded community mental health services, as well as national, regional and local data on how much is spent on mental health services, excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders. 50. We will continue to support systems to understand their proportional expected share of the increased access targets year on year.