"If the balance in Buckingamshire is wrong it is in the power of local people and the PCTs to put it right," he said.
Ladyman was criticised last week by the Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham, Cheryl Gillan, who said the county's mental health trust would be suffering from a 3.6m deficit by April.
Children's services were being hit by staffing problems and a lack of funds, said Gillan, citing the case of a South Buckinghamshire boy with psychological problems.
"A child urgently needed intervention but there had been no intervention for one whole school year," she said.
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