Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of poor mental health on the education outcomes of children up to 18 years old.

Mr Sam Gyimah

An estimated 1 in 10 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more have lower level problems. We know that all forms of mental health disorder in children are associated with disruption to education and absence from school. We also know there is a strong association between conduct disorders in adolescence and a lack of qualifications in early adulthood.

This is why the government has made good mental health, character and resilience a high priority. We want all children and young people to be able to fulfil their potential both academically and in terms of their mental wellbeing. The Department of Health has committed an additional £1.4 billion of funding which will be used to help radically improve mental health services for children, young people and new mothers over the next 5 years.

Schools and colleges have an important role to play in supporting the resilience and mental health of children and young people. To support schools develop approaches that suit the particular needs of their students we have:

• contributed £1.5 million to a joint pilot for training single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed;
• funded guidance and lesson plans to support age-appropriate teaching about mental health;
• published guidance on the provision of high quality counselling in schools, and mental health and behaviour;
• provided funding worth £4.9 million this year, through a dedicated mental health strand within our VCS programme, to support 17 projects delivering a wide range of support across the country to children and young people with mental health issues. These include projects to promote positive mental health in schools with organisations such as MIND and Place2Be.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to collect information centrally on how many people diagnosed with a mental health condition receive a custodial sentence.

Alistair Burt

The Department does not collect such data centrally.

Health and wellbeing needs assessments (HNAs) provide information on the estimated prevalence of mental illness in individual prisons. All prisons are required to produce HNAs, and the Department will discuss with NHS England the potential to publish information on prison health at a national level.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients attending A&E departments aged 0 to 18 years in 2014-15 were diagnosed with psychiatric conditions in 2014-15.

Alistair Burt

18,673 accident and emergency (A&E) attendances by patients aged 0 to 18 had a diagnosis of a psychiatric condition in 2014-15.

Notes:

1. These figures are from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).

2. A&E Diagnosis

The main diagnosis recorded for A&E attendances. Please note that the recording of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice. The following codes were used in this enquiry: 35 = Psychiatric conditions

3. Provisional data

The data are provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final data set. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.

4. Official source of A&E activity data

HES is not the official source of total A&E activity, this is the NHS England Situation Reports Collection-

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

However, HES permits further analysis of A&E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training and professional development is given to (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) mental health professionals on managing their own stress levels.

Ben Gummer

It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricula to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care. This may include training on conflict resolution, empathy, mental self-care and managing own stress.

Health Education England has a leadership role in ensuring the service continues to invest in the ongoing education and training of all staff and a shared responsibility for investing in continuing professional development to promote service innovation and transformation. However, employers are ultimately responsible for continuing professional development of their employees.

Employers also have a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of their staff.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2016 to Question 21922, which organisations other than CCGs have been allocated funding from the £173 million that has been allocated; and how much of that amount he estimates will be spent in 2015-16.

Alistair Burt

Out of the £173 million, £105 million has gone to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) directly.

The remaining £68 million has been allocated to the below organisations to be spent centrally on workforce and system development. These are approximations to the nearest million:

– £58 million allocated to NHS England;

– £9 million allocated to Health Education England; and

– £1 million allocated to the Department of Health.

The Government are taking a targeted and phased approach to ensuring the funding allocated to workforce and system development is spent effectively and plans are in place for this money to be spent.

The figure of how much of the £75 million allocated to CCGs to improve local services has been spent is not available. NHS England is currently collecting monthly financial information regarding the amount of spend on child and adolescent mental health services. This is being validated during January and will be made available later in the year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support Liverpool’s status as a City of Music as declared by UNESCO.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Government will be providing over £12 million of public funding via the Arts Council to support arts organisations in Liverpool in 2015/16. The Arts Council has also supported major capital projects in Liverpool including over £16 million towards the redevelopment of the Everyman Theatre and over £7 million towards the refurbishment of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Venues in Liverpool such as Constellations, Lomax and the Zanzibar Club demonstrate the impact of Government’s approach to entertainment licensing, planning guidance and business rates relief, all aimed at supporting and promoting music across the UK.

The Government supports the UNESCO Creative City Network, including Liverpool as a designated City of Music through its membership of UNESCO. The UK National Commission for UNESCO will be holding a workshop with Liverpool and the UK’s other Creative Cities to consider new opportunities and practical ways of working together to enhance the benefits that UNESCO accreditation brings, both nationally and internationally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) First Tier Tribunal (mental health) hearings in England and (b) Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings in Wales there have been in each year since 2010.

Caroline Dinenage

The First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health), administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears applications for the discharge of patients detained in psychiatric hospitals, and applications to change community treatment orders in England.

The following table shows the number of First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) hearings which took place in England in each year from 2010 to March 2015 (the latest full year period for which statistics are available).

Year Number of hearings [1]

April 2010 – March 2011 17,799

April 2011 – March 2012 19,330

April 2012 – March 2013 19,945

April 2013 – March 2014 22,008

April 2014 – March 2015 22,246

HMCTS does not hold information on the number of Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings in Wales. The Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales is an independent judicial body administered by the Welsh Government.

1 Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system, and are the best data that are available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions are in place to support and promote the mental wellbeing of psychology professionals within the NHS workforce.

Alistair Burt

NHS England’s Five Year Forward View draws attention to how National Health Service employers should look after their staff to stay healthy through new incentives, ensuring that guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on promoting healthy workplaces is implemented, particularly for mental health. The frontline work of our staff requires support, which is why both psychological wellbeing practitioners and high intensity practitioners have one hour of clinical supervision with an experienced trained supervisor per week. In addition, group supervision is available for longer sessions.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the funding for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services since 2010 has been spent on training and development of people working in such services.

Alistair Burt

All National Health Service trusts are required take account of and involve patients and the public in the way they plan and provide services. Transforming Participation in Health and Care, published September 2013, sets out the legal duties on NHS Commissioners to both involve patients in their own care and to involve the public in the way they commission services. The Commissioning organisation should ensure that providers they commission to provide services have suitable arrangements in place to involve patient and the public.

In addition NHS foundation trusts have specific responsibilities to involve their members and local communities usually through the appointment of Governing Body members. Trusts have their own arrangements as to how they make arrangements to involve their patients, carers and communities. Details of the arrangements would usually be available on the trust website.

Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for training new therapists and high intensity training. In 2015/16, the budget was £22.0 million to support 1,031 trainees. These trainees provide supervised practice alongside college attendance. There may also be some workforce development funding used to further develop people working in such services, however, HEE does not code its workforce development expenditure to the degree of detail to separately identify this.

Data is not collected centrally on the number of psychological therapists employed by the NHS who experienced workplace-related stress in each of the last five years.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils in Years 10 and 11 were (a) permanently and (b) temporarily excluded from school had autism spectrum disorder in each of the last five years.

Edward Timpson

The number of pupils recorded as having a mental health condition who received a permanent or fixed period exclusion is not held by the Department.

The number and proportion of pupils in national curriculum year group 10 and 11 with an autistic spectrum disorder primary need who were excluded in each of the last 5 years can be found in the attached table.

Information on the number of fixed period and permanent exclusions for all pupils, including separate breakdowns by national curriculum year group and special educational need provision, is available in the ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England’ National Statistics release[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions

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