Children's mental health referrals down by almost half in lockdown

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additional contacts and measures put in place around the system.” Data from March to June 2019/20 showed there were 2988 ‘contacts’ (in other words contact with children and young people in need) with service users – for the same period in 2020/21, there were 4822.Waiting times for the services in Trafford also slightly went down after an initial increase in April compared to the same time last year.In April 2019, 71pc of cases were seen to by the 12 week waiting time target.

In April 2020 that was down to 65pc.But while in May 2019, 87pc of cases were seen to within 12 weeks, in May 2020 88pc of cases were getting treatment or help by that target time.In June 2019, just 65pc of cases were seen by the 12 week target, but in June 2020 that.