Following a request from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, this report presents statistics on:
1. The time between referral and first contact, and referral and second contact, for children and young people accessing secondary mental health, learning disabilities, and autism services in England in 2024-25. Data is available at national and integrated care board (ICB) geographies. The data also include waiting times by team type, demographic characteristics, referral reason, and referral source. A contact is counted as either a direct contact with the child, young person, or family member/carer via a consultation mode of face-to-face, telephone, or video call, or an indirect contact between professionals. Data are presented for all eligible direct and indirect contacts, and by direct contacts only.
2. Annual time series data on the number of children and young people in contact with secondary mental health, learning disabilities, and autism services, including their waiting times between 2018-19 and 2024-25.
3. The number of children and young people with a suspected eating disorder seen within one week and four weeks. Data are presented at national and ICB level.
Data at sub-national level has been suppressed for values less than 5 and rounded to the nearest 5 otherwise.