This article discloses that “Currently around one in four children and young people who would benefit from mental health provision get help”. The provision comes through a service referred to as CAMHS (Child and adolescent mental health services) which is partly commissioned via Clinical Commissioning Groups. In 2015 the Government allocated £1.4bn to improve the prospect of CAMHS with the target of being able to serve one in three children by 2021. These funds are part of a policy referred to as Future In Mind. However as part of a freedom of information response in 2014 it was made clear that the Government also intended to use some of this funding to fund national strategies such as an evidence based community service for eating disorders and also workforce and system development but that response also claimed that over the five year period of the programme from 2015/16 to 2020/21 that the proportion allocated locally would grow. According to a recent question in the House of Commons the first year saw 66% allocated locally and this year the amount is estimated to be 76% so that still seems so distance to travel. However the real questions are why is the target merely helping one in three children and what proportion are being helped in areas such as Sussex. The article also suggests that at a local level some Clinical Commissioning Groups are using this additional funding to allow them to fix other problems. It is vital that mental health trusts and CCGs find a meaningful way of disclosing how far this funding has gone and how much would be needed to achieve 1 in 2 or even 1 in 1 of requirements. We could then place the cost of this against projects such as HS2, Nuclear Weapons and the cost of Brexit and see if our future plans should be changed.