1、 1 Childrens mental health services 2023-24 May 2025 2 Contents Content warning.4 Foreword from Dame Rachel de Souza.5 Executive summary.8 Key findings.10 Key recommendations.19 Background.25 About this report.26 Aim of this report.28 Limitations of this report.28 1.Trends in childrens mental health

2、 and access to NHS Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services(CYPMHS).30 2.Investment in childrens mental health services.32 3.Referral outcomes and waiting times.36 4.Referral outcomes and waiting times by demographic and geography.40 4.1 Referral outcomes and waiting times by childrens age.

3、40 4.2 Referral outcomes and waiting times by childrens gender.43 4.3 Referral outcomes and waiting times by childrens ethnicity.47 4.4 Waiting times by geography(ICB area).51 5.Referral outcomes and waiting times by primary referral reason.56 5.1 Referral outcomes by primary referral reason.56 5.2

4、Waiting times by primary referral reason.58 6.Primary referral reason by demographic.65 6.1 Primary referral reasons by childrens age.65 6.2 Primary referral reasons by childrens gender.68 6.3 Primary referral reasons by childrens ethnicity.71 7.Referral outcomes and waiting times by service/team ty

5、pe.76 3 7.1 Referral outcomes by service and team type a child was referred to.76 7.2 Waiting times by service and team type.78 8.Referral outcomes and waiting times by referral source.83 8.1 Outcomes by referral source.83 8.2 Waiting times by referral source.85 9.Referral source by demographic.88 9

6、.1 Referral source by childrens age.88 9.2 Referral source by childrens gender.91 9.3 Referral source by childrens ethnicity.92 10.Overall Integrated Care Board(ICB)level scores.95 11.Spotlight on children in crisis.102 11.1 Numbers of children referred for being in crisis.102 11.2 Children in crisi