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answer text: We are committed to ensuring that mental health support is available to all children and young people, including those diagnosed with life-limiting conditions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence provides national guidance on end of life care for infants, children and young people, including ensuring that infants, children and young people with a life-limiting condition and their parents or carers are given information about emotional and psychological support, including how to access it. This guidance can be found at the following link: https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/end-of-life-care-for-people-with-life-limiting-conditions The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, announced that that by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 will receive mental health support via National Health Service-funded mental health services. Under the Long Term Plan, mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. For the first time, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending. In addition to the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, on 20 December we announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites that will test the plans set out in ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’, published in December 2017. These new plans will significantly increase the availability of mental health support to children and young people, including those with life limiting conditions.
answer given date: 2019-01-30+00:00
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