Mike Hedges welcomes £7.6m for young people’s
mental health services
An extra £7.6m will be invested every year in child and adolescent mental
health services in Wales to ensure young people receive the right treatment at
the right time, Welsh Labour’s Health and Social Services Minister Mark
Drakeford has said.
Mike Hedges AM said… ‘This extra investment in an area of the Health
Service which has often been seen as a poor relation is very welcome. All
elected representatives come across young people who have suffered from Mental
Health problems, yet who have struggled to get an appropriate diagnosis and
treatment. Many young people in the criminal justice system would have been
less likely to offend if they had been able to access appropriate Mental Health
services at a young age. This money will make a great deal of difference to
some very vulnerable people – and help support their families.’
£2.7m will support the NHS-led service change and development of CAMHS,
which was launched earlier this year. It will also support specialist services,
ensuring young people are assessed when they present in crisis at an A&E
department or are arrested under s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
A further £1.1m will be invested to support the development of
psychological therapies for children and young people across Wales. Other
investments include:
- £2m for the assessment and treatment of ADHD, autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions, which will improve the provision of services for young people
- £800,000 will be used to increase the capacity of local primary care mental health teams to support young people preventing the need for children to be referred to specialist services unnecessarily
- £800,000 will be invested in earlier intervention for young people developing psychosis between the ages of 15 and 24
- £250,000 is being made available to develop services for the most vulnerable young people who are already in – or are at danger of entering – the youth justice system.
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