We asked the Department for Education what it considers it can do to support young girls with their mental health. It told us that it ensures the work it does with the Department of Health and Social Care is built on an understanding of the data, so that it can spot patterns in the data and “make that part of the conversation”. It told us that the government has invested an extra £2.3 billion a year for mental health services overall by 2023–24, which should enable an extra 345,000 children and young people to access NHS-funded mental health support. It added that some of the funding will be spent on eating disorder services resulting in another 2,000 places in eating disorder services this year. When asked whether departments are doing enough on preventative work on mental health, the Department for Education told us that it could not say it was sufficient given there is “obviously still a problem”.46 Currently there are 750 children and young people waiting for mental health treatment in Gloucestershire with some young people waiting over 18 months. The Department for Education said it would write to us with further details on the waiting times.47