This analysis presents the number of new referrals to secondary mental health services where the person was aged between 0 and 17 at the time of referral. Data is also presented on the number of people accessing services where the person was aged between 0 and 17 at the time of the care contact. The data presented is for region for 2016 to 2025.
Please note the following when using this analysis:
- this data is sourced from the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS).
- the data has been provided by month for the time period April 2016 to August 2025
- the data provided is a count of new referrals and not people. It is possible to sum the number of referrals across multiple months to arrive at a total figure, however, the data cannot provide a number for how many people were referred to services as one person may have had multiple referrals
- this analysis is based on referrals where the age at referral received date is between 0 and 17. The data provided includes all team types
- accessing services for any particular month has been defined as receiving at least one contact within that month where the age at care contact date was between 0 and 17
- data has been provided at region only
- all figures have been rounded to the nearest 5