PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Young People (24 April 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has issued recent guidance to integrated care boards on their role in assessing the mental and emotional health of young people entering care using a person qualified to assess mental health as part of the initial health assessment.

Asked by:
Rosie Duffield (Independent)

The statutory guidance, Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children, published in 2015, reflects the requirement that the relevant local authority must make arrangements for the initial health assessment to be carried out by a registered medical professional who is suitably qualified to assess a young person's physical, emotional, and mental health needs.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
29 April 2024