MH Support Budget & Total Spend

Reference: 24-25348

Date response sent: 03/02/2025

Details of enquiry

What is your total budget and total spend for mental health support to babies, children and young people aged 0-25 for each of the last five years (2018/19; 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2023/24).  Please break down these figures into your spending and budget for the following three categories:

1. What is your total budget and total spend for each of the last five years (2018/19; 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2023/24) for specialist services which we define as including, but not limited to; inpatient care, crisis and risk support (including day hospitals, home treatment teams and very specialist services), and specialist secondary care CAMHS. If Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust provides other specialist services not listed, please list and include budget and spending figures. If you hold this data, please list figures broken down by type of specialist service.
2. What is your total budget and total spend for each of the last five years (2018/19; 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2023/24) for Community CAMHS which we define as NHS services delivered in the community, outside of specialist services (as defined above). If you hold this data, please list the types of service you provide under community CAMHS in Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and list budget and spending figures broken down by each service.
3. What is your total budget and total spend for each of the last five years (2018/19; 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2023/24) on non-specialist services which we define as services delivered outside of NHS community mental health settings (formerly Tier 3) and inpatient settings (formerly Tier 4) – for children and young people. Within this definition we exclude signposting services and services that only provide referrals. If you hold this data, please list spending figures broken down by type of specialist service. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Social prescribing

• Bereavement services

• Peer support

• Mental Health Support Teams

• School counsellors, mentors, or pastoral or key support workers

• Educational psychologists

• Youth groups

• Wellbeing cafes or mental health drop-in services

• Youth information, advice and counselling services (YIACS)

• Early support and mental health hubs

• Advice line for mental health issues

• Support for parents who have children with poor mental health (please specify early years, 5-11, 12-18, 18 plus, if you hold the data).

• Targeted service(s) for LGBTQ+ children and young people; children and young people from minority ethnic / racialised communities; children in care and care leavers; for other underserved children and young people (please list).

• Targeted service(s) for children and young people on waiting lists for access to NHS mental health services (formerly tier 3)

• Art or music therapy

• Online support service / app

• Occupational therapy

• Specific services or approaches for underserved groups including minority ethnic children and young people, LGBT+ children and young people, children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, young people at risk of criminal exploitation, etc.

1. If Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust provides any additional non-specialist services not included in the above list, please list here, and include relevant budget and spending data in the above request for information.
2. If your budget is pooled with another body i.e. neighbouring local authority, Police and Crime Commissioner etc, please specify.

Response sent

Trust Response to Questions 1-4 above:

Please find attached a csv file containing all data requested in your questions 1-3 above.  This data  has also been attached replicated as a text file in a word document format for your choice of reading formats.

You may also be interested to review further details about each of the services covered (as listed in column E of the attached csv file), and this data is publicly available on our website at: Services – Tavistock and Portman