FoI Number
2022-735
Subject
CAMHS Funding
Date Received
13/02/2023
Request and Response

1. The total amount of funding for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the NHS Shetland health board area for the financial year 2021-22.

£458,820 was spent in financial year 2021-22.

2. The total amount of funding per child for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the NHS Shetland health board area in the financial year 2021-22.

In 2021-22, CAMHS were providing care to children under 16 years old, before we expanded the service up to 18 years old. We had 4000 children within the health board at that point and had £114.70 per capita available.