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Neglected minds: a report on mental health support for young people leaving care
- Author:
- SMITH Nicholas
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
This report looks at the mental health needs of care leavers and what could be done to better support them. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research carried out with Barnardo's services, the research found that 46 per cent of the Barnardo's care leaver cases which were reviewed as part of the research involved young people who had mental health needs. In addition, 65 per cent of young people identified as having mental health needs were not currently receiving any statutory service. Barriers facing care leavers in accessing support included: information about mental health needs not being passed to leaving care teams; those supporting care leavers, such as personal advisers lacking expertise in mental health; and mental health services available are often too inflexible to meet the needs of care leavers. The report highlights good practice ideas to help overcome these barriers and better support care leavers with mental health needs. These include embedding mental health workers in leaving care teams, youth specific provision designed around the needs of young people and more training for personal advisers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health of immigrant children: a new challenge for child and adolescent psychiatry services in Ireland
- Authors:
- SKOKAUSKAS Norbert, CLARKE Dermot
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 15(3), July 2009, pp.227-233.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Ethnically, Ireland has diversified greatly over the past few years. Immigration is one of the one of the most stressful events a child can undergo; it involves profound changes, including a disruption of well-established relationships and acculturation. Since the long-established and dominant pattern for years had been emigration, Ireland is poorly equipped to meet mental health needs of immigrant children.
Promoting the health of looked after children: a study to inform revision of the 2002 guidance
- Authors:
- MOONEY Ann, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This study aimed to provide an evidence base to assist the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health in revising the guidance 'Promoting the Health of Looked After Children'. The report summarises the research and statistical evidence on the prevalence and nature of health problems among looked after children and the characteristics of the population of looked after children, as well as published evidence on how well their health needs are being met and the views of young people themselves. It also includes an overview of findings from the stakeholder interviews illustrating the differences between the guidance and current practice, the main areas of difficulty with the guidance and suggestions from interviewees about what might be done to address these difficulties. Chapter 3, draws on evidence from JAR reports, Healthy Care Programme briefing papers and local audits as well as from information provided by interviewees. Conclusions are drawn in chapter 5 using all the data sources for this study.
Response to Children and young people in mind: final report of the National CAMHS Review
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following the announcement of the Review of CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health services) in the Children's Plan in December 2007, Ed Balls and Alan Johnson invited Jo Davidson to lead this Review and Dr Bob Jezzard to act as Vice-Chair. The Review represented an excellent opportunity to look at how well services are meeting the educational, health and social needs of children and young people at risk of, and experiencing, mental health problems. It also represented a chance to make recommendations for future progress The remit of the Review was broad and challenging, as the terms of reference show. There was a strong early response, which emphasised that responsibility for psychological well-being and mental health is not confined to specialist child and adolescent mental health services. For the purposes of the Review, 'CAMHS' therefore includes all services that promote psychological well-being and mental health or which respond to and meet the mental health needs of all children and young people. This includes universal services, targeted services and specialist services. With the help of the Expert Group, the Review team set out to find out what progress has been made in recent years in delivering services. They also aimed to work out what can be done to address current challenges and deliver better outcomes for children and young people with mental health problems.
Stressed out and struggling project report 1: service-mapping
- Authors:
- PUGH Kathryn, MEIER Richard
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report details the results of a qualitative mapping of how well Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England and Scotland consider they are meeting the mental health needs of 16-25 year-old young adults. This publication is one of a series of outputs from the Stressed Out and Struggling (SOS) Project, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. The project aims to raise awareness of the mental health needs of 16-25 year-olds and to improve access to mental health services for this age group. The report is aimed at commissioners and providers of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), as it offers services and commissioners the opportunity to compare how well they are meeting the needs of young adults with respondents to the survey. In 2005 we wrote to all PCTs to ask them to complete two questionnaires about a range of topics relating to the provision of mental health services for 16-18 year-olds and 19-25 year-olds
Health offensive
- Author:
- SMITH Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 72, September 2004, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Looks at how Havering Youth Offending Team works with their local child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) and other health services to meet the physical and mental health needs of young offenders. They hold monthly inter-agency meetings with CAMHS. In particular they look at those who haven’t been sectioned under the Mental Health Act but have severe mental health and drug problems. Also looks at how they work with young people, giving a list of times when they have found it important to build a therapeutic relationship with young people and their families.
The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in Wales: the report of a survey in 2002/2003 by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Welsh Assemby Government
- Authors:
- MELTZER Howard, et al
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 164p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings of a survey of the mental health of young people, aged 5-17, looked after by local authorities in Wales. The first part of the report focuses on the prevalence rates of mental disorders among young people looked after by local authorities. The second part shows a range of information including their background, personal and familial characteristics, physical health, use of services and social functioning.
Children's rights and mental health needs
- Author:
- MORLEY Dinah
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 204, March 2004, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
The author, Acting Director of YoungMinds, looks at the lack of services and investment in the field of child and adolescent mental health services. Highlights their importance if children's rights are to be upheld and supported.
Briefing: children's mental healthcare in England
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S COMMISSIONER FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Commissioner for England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing highlights the slow progress made in reforming the children’s mental health services since the ‘Future in Mind’ programme was launched in 2015. It explains why progress has been limited and sets out some of the changes required to ensure children’s mental health services meet demand. It highlights the disparity and inequalities between adults’ and children’s mental health services. It reports on differences in spending by local areas on children's compared to adults' services; the large proportion of NHS spending on children's mental health services that goes towards those with the most severe needs, despite early intervention services being cheaper to deliver and more cost effective; and argues that the Government has failed to provide local NHS areas with clear expectations as to what they should be provide or what aspects of services they should monitor. It sets out recommendations, which include that the forthcoming Green Paper should to set clear expectations as to what a child can expect in terms of mental health support and whose responsibility it is to provide this support. (Edited publisher abstract)
Stick with us: tackling missed appointments in children's mental health services
- Author:
- ABDINASIR Kadra
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 68
- Place of publication:
- London
This report explores missed appointments within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), policies to help address missed appointments and how services need to change to support children and young people. It draws on evidence from a responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) request from 39 providers of specialist CAMHS and a desk-based literature review. The analysis found that approximately 157,000 specialist appointments in specialists Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) were missed by children and young people in 2016. Missed appointments not only result in a financial cost to the NHS but pose a risk to young people themselves. Reasons for missed appointments included because of the mental health problem itself, long waiting times to get treatment, difficulty with getting to appointments, trust in adults, and the stigma around mental health. The report also found that many missed appointments are not followed up by CAMHS. The report makes recommendations to help reduce missed appointments, including: mandatory follow up by mental health services after missed appointments, shorter waiting times so children don't give up and drop out of the system, and involvement of children and young people's views in the way services are designed and delivered. (Edited publisher abstract)