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<p>The Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Seventy-Second
to the Seventy-Seventh reports from Session 2017-19 set out that the Government disagreed
with the Committee’s recommendation. It went on to say that:</p><p> </p><p>“The Department
supports the intent behind this recommendation and is considering the benefits of
developing a coherent cross-departmental programme in due course. However, doing so
would require considerable time and resource to do it justice and our focus at present
is on a wide range of delivery and policy priorities which we will set out briefly
here. NHS England set out a clear plan for improvements in the NHS in the Five Year
Forward View for Mental Health Implementation Plan, building upon the recommendations
of Future in Mind to improve children and young people’s mental health. The Department
remains committed to this plan and has since made commitments to go significantly
further, particularly in relation to mental health and education via Transforming
Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper, jointly published
with the Department for Education in December 2017, and there are a wide range of
important new commitments outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. The Department is also
taking forward significant work bilaterally with several other government departments
including the Ministry of Justice on the independent review of the Mental Health Act,
the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on social media and a cross-government
strategy on suicide prevention which was published 22 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Both
the children and young people’s mental health Green Paper and Future in Mind identified
the need for cross-organisational working. As a result of Future in Mind, since 2015,
each Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area across England worked with partners in
Children’s Services, the voluntary sector, providers and children, young people and
parents to develop Local Transformation Plans, setting out how local agencies will
work together to improve children and young people’s mental health across the full
spectrum of need. Local Transformation Plans are refreshed annually and report into
local governance structures including Health and Wellbeing Boards. The Government
convenes regular cross-Whitehall Inter-Ministerial Groups to ensure senior focus on
mental health in policies across Government.”</p><p> </p><p>The Government response
is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Treasury%20MInutes%20Government_Response_Web.pdf#page=9"
target="_blank">www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Treasury%20MInutes%20Government_Response_Web.pdf#page=9</a></p>
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