00:00 So there is a range of trust that...
00:02 So it's more than one, where you'd wait three years.
00:04 So what we have seen over Covid is a tsunami of children
00:09 experiencing mental health issues.
00:11 We're also encouraging people to come forward,
00:13 so children and young people that perhaps wouldn't have come forward
00:16 a few years ago because we weren't...
00:18 There were stigmas and taboos about coming forward. Three years!
00:20 Maria Caulfield, I honestly, as a parent and a journalist,
00:24 I can't understand how you can tolerate being in a department
00:28 with a responsibility for mental health and ever have a situation
00:33 where a young person is waiting three years for mental health support.
00:38 That is an intolerable amount of time.
00:41 So how are we trying to fix that?
00:42 We know that there are waiting lists,
00:43 we know that there is, you know, excessive demand
00:46 in some parts of the country, not in all,
00:48 but we are trying to get in that support earlier
00:51 so patients aren't having to be referred to CAMHS,
00:53 Children's Mental Health Services.
