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Financial mapping tracks use of funds from 2003 to 2006
CAMHS and the 300m
The 300m of new money for child and adolescent mental healthservices (CAMHS) announced in 2002 is ringfenced cash. CAMHS mapping wasdeveloped to enable the Department of Health (DH) to track thisexpansion against public service agreement targets.
Funding sources
Funding allocated to primary care trusts (PCTs) and local authorities(LAs) - mainstream funding - accounted for 94 per cent of the CAMHSbudget in 2004/05 and is predicted to account for 93 per cent in2005/06.
The rest of the money comes from youth offending, Sure Start/children'scentres, and the Children's Fund as well as drugs and alcohol funding.In 2003/04, LAs spent nearly 44m of the 50m allocated bythe DH; in 2004/05, they spent 71m - 4m more than the67m allocated. It is likely that things were slower to get offthe ground in the first year because there was little confidence thatthe money for additional support would be sustained.
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