MPs on the cross-party committees will consider what mental health support is available to children and young people up to the age of 25 in community, health and education settings.

Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, Layla Moran, said: ‘Services are frequently overwhelmed and not joined up. Too often the help doesn't come until a child's needs are at crisis point. These fundamental problems sit alongside issues that the Health and Social Care Committee documented in 2021 — the need to increase emphasis on prevention and early intervention. We return to these themes now amid deepening concern about the scale of need and questions of how the system can be remade fit for purpose.'

MPs will consider how support is integrated with NHS services, such as specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) services, and what support is available throughout the education system, including for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

They will explore how potential reforms to CAMHS could improve children and young people's access to mental health care and whether support could be provided in the community, such as through the Government's new Young Futures Hubs.

The committees will also scrutinise the implementation and roll out of relevant Government policies such as the commitment to expand mental health support teams to all schools in England by 2029/30, plans to establish a network of Young Futures Hubs and alignment between various government strategies such as the 10-Year Health Plan, the Independent Review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism, and the National Youth Strategy.

MPs will also investigate how education staff can support children and young people's mental health, and whether current Ofsted frameworks or DfE guidance help or hinder mental health provision.