Children with mental health problems 'guaranteed' treatment in four weeks

Exclusive: Leaked government paper reveals plan for waiting time cap – but cuts mean it cannot be rolled out for four years

Children with anxiety and depression will be guaranteed treatment within four weeks in a new effort to improve mental health care, but lack of NHS staff and funding means the plan cannot be fully introduced until 2021.

A leak from the forthcoming green paper on children’s mental health, due to be published in early December, reveals that for the first time, the government will introduce a maximum waiting time for youngsters needing such treatment.

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