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Camhs contracts

UK public sector · 149 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
149
Last 12 months
Median contract
£272k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£260m
133 of 143 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
81
Suppliers
143

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most camhs contracts took 15% of them (22 of 149).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 39% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £272k, is 2.6 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • London had the most contracts: 22, or 15% of the total.

Who buys camhs

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1South Ayrshire Council13 contracts
  2. 2NHS North West London ICB10 contracts
  3. 3NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board10 contracts
  4. 4Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts
  5. 5Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts
  6. 6NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  7. 7NHS South West London Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  8. 8NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB4 contracts
  9. 9Kent County Council3 contracts
  10. 10Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts

Top camhs contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Kooth7 contracts
  2. 2Barnardo's6 contracts
  3. 3Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust3 contracts
  4. 4Off the Record3 contracts
  5. 5Brandon Centre3 contracts
  6. 6Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust2 contracts
  7. 7The Real Group2 contracts
  8. 8Family Action2 contracts
  9. 9North London NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

12Q4 2025*59Q1 202641Q2 202636Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 123 · Scotland 20 · Wales 6

London22North West21Scotland20West Midlands17Yorkshire and The Humber14North East12South East12East of England10East Midlands8Wales6South West5UK-wide or not stated2

What is included

Mental health support for children, young people and families, from early help counselling and wellbeing services in schools, community and online to specialist community CAMHS, intensive family treatment and parent-infant mental health teams.

  • Youth counselling for ages 11 to 25
  • Online counselling for children, young people and care leavers
  • School-based creative arts and music therapy for SEMH needs
  • Short-term early intervention therapy to avoid crisis
  • Emotional health and wellbeing services for young people
  • Community CAMHS contracts
  • Intensive community family treatment for conduct disorder and harmful sexual behaviour
  • Parent-infant mental health services

What is not included

  • CAMHS tier 4 inpatient beds (hlt.mh.inpatient-secure-beds)
  • Autism and ADHD diagnosis (hlt.mh.autism-adhd-assessment)
  • Adult counselling (hlt.mh.talking-therapies-adult-counselling)
  • Whole-system contracts covering adult and children's services (hlt.mh.integrated-mental-health-services)
  • Self-help apps and digital platforms bought as software (it.lob.digital-mental-health-platform)
  • Educational psychology (edu.sch.educational-psychology-and-ehc-assessment)
  • Abuse support for children without therapy (soc.abuse.children-and-young-peoples-abuse-support)

Often bought by the same buyers