Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (NHS Fife)

Part of Portfolio Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 19 Mehefin 2024.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Neil Gray Neil Gray Scottish National Party

There has been no cut to mental health services—I do not know where Paul Sweeney is getting that from. There has been a substantial increase—a near doubling—in the funding that is available for mental health, and a clear investment has been made in CAMHS. That is why there is an increase in the workforce supporting CAMHS referrals and why there is better referral-to-treatment performance. It is not where we want it to be, but it is the best performance that we have had in a decade.

I am very grateful to the front-line staff who are working so hard and performing so well to ensure that we are providing those services to the children and young people who need them.