ADHD diagnosesADHD diagnoses
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Children, Young People, Education and Skills and published on
18 November 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 761306037
1. The number of ADHD diagnoses made by CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services).
2. Current average waiting time for a child ADHD assessment.
3. The average waiting time for a child ADHD assessment over the last five years.
4. The number of children currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment.
Response
1. The collation of data relating to the number of ADHD diagnoses made by CAMHS only began in January 2025.
181 ADHD diagnoses have been made by CAMHS to date in 2025.
As data prior to January 2025 has not been collated, the department do not hold this information, therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied to that data.
2. Based on the last complete data set, collated from the third quarter of 2025, the current average waiting time for an ADHD assessment is 18 months.
3. The average waiting time for a child ADHD assessment over the last 5 years can be seen in the table below, these have been rounded to the nearest whole month.
| Year | Waiting time |
| 2021 | 6 months |
| 2022 | 7 months |
| 2023 | 10 months |
| 2024 | 15 months |
| 2025 (to date) | 18 months
|
4. The number of children currently on the waiting list for ADHD assessment is 147.
Article Applied
Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”
For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –
(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or
(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.
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