this strategy stresses the need for prevention and early recognition of problems in children and their families and the importance of specialised child and adolescent mental health services camhs hm government for the first time ever this enabled the setting of access and waiting time standards in mental health services the document closing the gap the new mental health action plan sets out our priorities for essential change in mental health areas where people can expect to see and experience the fastest changes it shows how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference in the next two or three years to the lives of people with mental health problems