Figures from government health and education departments also reveal themajority of local authorities will fail to achieve top ratings ondeveloping comprehensive services ahead of the publication ofperformance results in November. And they confirm reports that healthand local authorities are unlikely to meet public service agreementtargets on child mental health by the end of this year.
Research shows the highest spending authorities, in North CentralLondon, spend 27.14 per child annually, compared to the lowestspending authorities in West Midlands South, which spend 2.39.The average spend per child is 8.63.
For the first time, figures for local authorities have been gathered aspart of a national programme on benchmarking child and adolescent mentalhealth services by Durham University. Until now, this programme hasfocused on tracking the progress of health areas in developing childmental health services since 2002.
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