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<p>We are introducing two waiting times for children and young people by the end of
2020/21: for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive
treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases, and for
60% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment
within two weeks of referral.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to an additional
345,000 children and young people in England accessing mental health support via National
Health Service-funded mental health services and schools- and college-based mental
health support teams each year by 2023/24</p><p>We are also piloting a four-week waiting
time for children and young people’s mental health services in 12 areas to inform
the development of a new national access and waiting times standard.</p><p>Where a
local NHS children and young people’s specialist mental health service rejects a referral,
the young person and/or their carers should be signposted to appropriate support elsewhere.
On 8 September, the Government launched a mental wellbeing campaign for children and
young people. This involves an extension of Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters
webpage and signposts to a range of support available to children and young people
and their parents and carers.</p>
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