Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services in the UK.

Authors
Martin Knapp, Vittoria Ardino, Nicola Brimblecombe, Sara Evans-Lacko, Valentina Iemmi, Derek King, Tom Snell, Silvia Murguia, Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Steve Crane, Abi Harris, David Fowler, Joanne Hodgekins, Jon Wilson

Published by
London School of Economics and Political Science, January 2016

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Summary
A team from the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science analysed data from the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey, a survey of 2,461 children and young people, and the 2000 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey.

The team found mental health-related costs for 12- to 15-year-olds totalled an average of £1,778 a year. Ninety per cent of this cost was incurred by the education sector. The cost was broken down as £24 for primary care, £30 for paediatrics, £60 for mental health services, £100 for social care, £908 for frontline education and £656 for special education resources.

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