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<p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed that investment in mental health services will
grow faster than the National Health Service budget overall for each of the next five
years, creating a new ringfenced local investment fund worth at least £2.3 billion
a year by 2023/24. In addition, funding for children and young people’s mental health
services, including mental health support teams, will grow faster than both overall
NHS funding and total mental health spending.</p><p> </p><p>Funding allocations will
be made to local areas in consultation with NHS England and NHS Improvement regions
to support the development of school or college-based mental health support teams
in all regions, additional to clinical commissioning group baseline funding.</p><p>
</p><p>Details of the funding to be made available to individual systems will be decided
through the five-year planning process.</p><p> </p>
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