Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
Commons · Question 20487 · Tabled 16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Carla Denyer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his plans to provide mental health professionals in schools include access to children and young people’s counsellors trained to Level 4 Diploma of Higher Education in counselling with clin
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 14 Jan 2025
We know that waits for mental health services are far too long, including for children and young people. That is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across children and adult mental health services, and introduce a specialist ment...