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<p>No formal assessment has been made as comparable data is not available at a national
level.</p><p>Referral data for children and young people’s mental health services
is published by NHS Digital in the Mental Health Services Dataset since 2017. This
shows that in 2017/18 there were 259,615 new referrals to children and young people’s
mental health services for people aged 0-18 and 381,528 new referrals for the same
in 2018/19.</p><p>The number of providers supplying data has increased in 2018/19
and so a direct comparison between the two years is not possible.</p>
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