Just six per cent of the NHS mental health budget is spent on child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). So the commitment in the government's NHS Long Term Plan to "grow" funding for CAMHS faster than any other area has been welcomed by the children and young people's sector.
The plan, launched last month, promises to ringfence £2.3bn each year for wider mental health services in an attempt to deliver on the government's pledge to support an additional 345,000 children and young people through communiy-based services.
The plan states that between the ages of five and 15, "one in every nine children has a mental disorder". Yet, as of 2017/18, fewer than a third of young people in this group were estimated to have accessed help.
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