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<p>£1.25 billion has been made available for children’s mental health over the course
of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We, and local areas, along with
our partner organisations including the Department for Education, are building on
the momentum and powerful consensus generated by <em>Future in Mind, </em>the report
on the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>We are making progress and are committed to taking forward both the
ambition and individual proposals, backed by the additional investment. We are developing
a central programme plan with a phased approach to implementation. Action underway
includes:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Work to extend and expand the Children and
Young People’s Access to Psychological Therapies Programme, so that by 2018, all local
services will have participated in this transformative programme and it will cover
additional clinical areas;</p><p> </p><p>- The commissioning of a new prevalence survey
on mental health problems in children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>- Local areas
have been invited to pilot joint training between schools and children and young people’s
mental health services providers, to strengthen the mental health advice and support
available in educational settings;</p><p> </p><p>- Improved services for perinatal
mental health and eating disorders, both of which are being addressed through work
this year; and</p><p> </p><p>- Plans for legislation to prevent any child or young
person being put in a police cell as a place of safety during a mental health crisis.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In May 2015, NHS England wrote to all clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) asking them to work with their partners from across the NHS, public
health, local authority, youth justice and education sectors to develop local Transformation
Plans for children’s mental health and wellbeing to reshape the way services for children
and young people with mental health needs are commissioned and delivered across all
agencies over the next five years in line with proposals put forward in <em>Future
in Mind</em>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England will shortly be publishing
guidance, developed with partners across the system, to CCGs on local Transformation
Plans for children and young people’s mental health, in line with the proposal in
<em>Future in Mind.</em></p><p> </p>
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