Critics fear the report, which also charts the progress made by childand adolescent mental health services, has seriously underplayed thechallenges that they face. The news comes ahead of the deadline by whichhealth and local authorities are supposed to have a comprehensiveservice in place to meet the Government's target.
To reach the target, areas were expected to provide children with24-hour cover, mental health services for those with learningdisabilities and appropriate services for 16- and 17-year-olds byDecember 2006.
Figures submitted by primary care trusts show that at the end of June2006, more than 85 per cent of trusts were commissioning 24-hourservices, twice as many as in 2002. Three quarters of trusts werecommissioning services for 16- and 17-year-olds and 59 per cent werecommissioning child and adolescent mental health sevices for childrenwith learning disabilities, an increase of almost half compared to theend of 2004/05.
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