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<p>Children and young people’s mental health is a priority area for this Government.
We are committed to delivering the vision set out in <em>Future in mind</em> through
the launch of a major system-wide transformation programme working alongside our partners
in Government and arm’s length bodies. This will improve access and make services
more widely available across the country.</p><br /><p>To support this transformation,
an additional£1.4 billion funding has been made available over the course of this
Parliament for spending on children and young people’s mental health, of which we
are spending £173 million this year, including £30 million on eating disorders. This
will be used to improve community-based services so that young people are helped earlier
and are less likely to need to go into hospital. It will also enable the expansion
and extension of the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies programme so that a wider range of those who need it are able to access
high quality and evidence-based interventions wherever they may live. All clinical
commissioning groups have been asked to work with their partners to develop Local
Transformation Plans to transform their local offer to improve children and young
people’s mental health and wellbeing.</p><br /><p>A national programme of work will
support local areas, including the extension and expansion of the use of evidence-
based interventions, tackling stigma, improving data and information to inform greater
transparency and accountability and developing a specialist and stronger workforce.</p>
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