the most common referral of children and adolescents into mental health services is as for adults through a gp primary health care although education services social services and child health services also play an important role in referral and as care providers for children and adolescents child and adolescent mental health services camhs provide mental health care for young people under the age of in england since april nhs funded child and adolescent mental health services are mandated to collect and submit the camhs data set including information on targeted needs referrals to camhs presenting problems and diagnoses contacts care planning interventions outcome measures and inpatient stays the health and social care information centre