Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81573

Mental Health Services: Children

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Richard Quigley

LabourIsle of Wight West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children died while receiving inpatient mental health care in each year since 2010; and what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that (a) these deaths are properly (i) recorded a

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Since 2013, there has been a total of 40 deaths of young people aged under 18 years old in contact with Tier 4 inpatient children and young people’s mental health services, including those on home leave, or who had absconded. We are unable to provide the ...

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