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<p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No such
assessment has been made. However, counselling services should be available as part
of the wider mental health provision to support sexually abused children. This Government
is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing
as a whole, which will also benefit children and young people who have been victims
of sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National Health Service funding for
mental health services increased by £300 million last year. Historically, treatment
targets have only been attached to physical health – a problem the Government is correcting
with £1.25 billion announced in the last Budget. This will direct funding to mental
health services and will ensure people, including those whose mental health has been
affected through sexual abuse, get the treatment they need when they need it.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our investment to date in the Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies (IAPT) programme has made a choice of psychological therapies available
for those who need them in all parts of England reflecting the objective in the Government’s
Mandate to NHS England to provide access to therapies for around 900,000 people per
year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. IAPT include therapies for post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) in response to sexual abuse as well as therapies for depression
and anxiety disorders which may result from the traumatic of the abuse.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation’ published in March
2015, set out cross-Government actions to prevent child sexual exploitation or, where
it has happened, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need. The Department
and its Arms Length Bodies are taking forward the health related recommendations,
which focus on improving data on prevalence so that commissioners can develop the
local service response to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National
Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued guidelines on ‘Post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary
care’ issued in March 2005, reviewed in December 2011, and ‘Depression in adults:
The treatment and management of depression in adults’, published in October 2009.
The guidance includes recommendations for the care and treatment of people with psychological
and mental health needs arising from sexual abuse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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