So far this year £149m has already been awarded to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as part of a £1.4bn government commitment to improve mental health services for children and young people over the period up to 2020.
NHS England said that, in recognition of the pressures faced by local areas in transforming their services, it has "reprioritised" spending on national programmes to identify an additional £25m for CCGs to spend in 2016/17.
In order to get a slice of the cash, CCGs will be asked to provide details of how they intend to improve average waiting times for treatment by March 2017.
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