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<p>The Department does not currently collect information on waiting times for all
child and adolescent mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>However, we have introduced
the first ever access and waiting time standards for mental health. Standards on waiting
times for early intervention in psychosis are already in place and encompass children
and young people aged 14 or over. Standards for eating disorders services, targeted
at children and young people, were published in August 2015 and will come into effect
on 1 April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Digital has begun publishing experimental
data from the Data Set setting out the waiting times of children and young people
between referral and second contact. NHS England has also set aside a fund of £25
million to reduce waiting times backlogs and asked clinical commissioning groups to
set out the steps they will make, using that fund, to reduce any waiting lists during
2016-17.</p>
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