Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2014 to Question 208785, how much of the £17 million budget for the NHS England Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Transformation programme for 2014-15 was spent; and on what that funding was spent.

Alistair Burt

The full £17 million has been spent on the NHS England and Health Education England Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Transformation programme for 2014-15.

The funds were spent on delivering the programme to 65 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) partnerships of National Health Service and local authority commissioners working with statutory and non-statutory providers covering 68% of the 0-19 population in England. The model of delivery for the programme is through five Learning Collaboratives made up of Higher Education Institutes and the relevant CAMHS partnerships.

The collaboratives deliver training, peer mentoring for new partnerships and have a support and challenge role to enable services to deliver a choice of evidence based outcomes focussed interventions in collaboration with children, young people and their families.

Partnerships also receive funds to backfill staff whilst training, outreach service development and infrastructure improvement.

In addition, the programme funded participation by children, young people and parents at a national and local level and data capture to inform service planning.

The direct training delivered includes:

– Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression;

– Parenting Therapy for the treatment of conduct disorders in those aged 0-10;

– Interpersonal Therapy for Adolescents for the treatment of moderate to severe depression;

– Systemic Family Practice for the treatment of conduct disorders in the over 10s, self-harm and depression, and eating disorders;

– Enhanced Evidence Based Practice which teaches practitioners the basic principles of CYP IAPT;

– All therapy courses have a course for training supervisors; and

– Service leadership and management.

The table below outlines the numbers of trainees that were recruited in the 14-15 academic year.

Training Numbers from 14-15