A year after the government published the Future in Mind five-year strategy for children’s mental health services, evidence suggests more must be done for young people across the country to have equal access to specialist care.
CentreForum’s State of the Nation report, published earlier this month, concludes that current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) provision and funding is “patchy and highly variable”. It found huge variations in spending across the country, from £41 per child in the East Midlands, to £83 in the north of England.
The think-tank also found evidence that CAMHS are turning away nearly a quarter of children referred, and that clinical commissioning groups, which commission community services at tiers two and three [see box], were too often neglecting spending on mental health.
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