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Joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to children’s mental health in Plymouth
- Authors:
- OFSTED, et al
- Publisher:
- OFSTED
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Findings from a joint inspection about the effectiveness of partnership working and of the work of individual agencies responding to children’s mental health in Plymouth. The inspection was undertaken by HMI Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation. The report sets out the key strengths of partnership working and identifies areas for improvements. The findings show that partnership working is integral to Plymouth’s approach to improving services for children and ell-established strategic planning and commissioning help to focus on improving services and meet the emotional and mental health needs of children. The Plymouth trauma-informed practice approach is starting to be visible in practice across the partnership. However, the report suggests that quality assurance by the Plymouth and Torbay safeguarding children partnership is underdeveloped – this means that the partnership does not have the benefit of a robust analysis of the impact of statutory training and multi-agency audits. In addition, the governance arrangements for the youth offending team (YOT) are weak and require urgent attention. The emotional well-being and mental health needs of children accessing the YOT are not yet fully known or understood, and the partnership cannot be confident that they are being met. (Edited publisher abstract)
Think child, think parent, think family: a briefing for senior managers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This ‘At a glance’ summary is aimed at senior managers and presents key recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare'. The summary outlines the context, including lack of coordination of services, challenges for staff, financial restrictions and the growing change in policy direction towards supporting families and improving child health and wellbeing. It then makes key recommendations to improve services including taking a strategic multi-agency approach, leading cultural change, involving people who use services, embedding the whole-family approaches into quality systems, improving staff skills and knowledge and ensuring that information is gathered and made accessible. Experience at a number of pilot sites in local authorities in England and Northern Ireland highlights the importance of senior management involvement to the success of this approach.
Therapeutic collaboration: bridging the gap between statutory and therapeutic work
- Author:
- ROBINSON Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 57(4), December 2004, pp.374-380.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Considers the clinical effectiveness of child and youth mental health workers and child protection workers employing a therapeutic collaborative model for practice when engaged with extremely at risk and vulnerable families. Argues that this approach has the potential to assist professionals work in a meaningful way enhancing therapeutic containment and subsequent engagement with families. Advocates a model that does not demarcate statutory from psychological thinking. Indeed, such a split, it is argued, promotes barriers that impede and fragment the helping process. Discusses examples using this practice model, including the need for greater flexibility and professional goodwill across government and non-government agencies.
What am I?
- Author:
- REES Dawn
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 71, July 2004, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Looks at the changing face of child and adolescent mental health services and asks what it means for professional identity.
Children's mental health: creating comprehensive services in a climate of change
- Authors:
- IRVINE Bruce, MORLEY Dinah
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 51, March 2001, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Following an article proposing the creation of CAMHS Boards, the authors argue that getting the partnership arrangements right are more important than where child and adolescent services are located.
Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
Of the 175,000 young carers identified in the 2001 census, 29 per cent – or just over 50,000 – were estimated to care for a family member with mental health problems (Dearden and Becker 2004). Not all children living with a parent with mental health problems will be carers but, for those that are, they can be involved in undertaking a variety of tasks including: advocacy, help with correspondence and bills, liaising with professionals, administering medicines, emotional support and domestic tasks. This film is about 18-year-old Cait who has been caring for her Mum since she was 7 years old. The film explores the importance of involving and assessing the needs of all family members from the outset. It describes Cait’s own experience of getting the support she needed and how agencies in Liverpool are working together to improve services for parents with mental health problems and their children.
Alcohol, drug and mental health problems: working with families
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, KEARNEY Patricia, LEVIN Enid, ROSEN Gwen
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a NISW research and development project looking at the interfaces within and between services for families where a parent has a persistent mental health, alcohol or drug problem. Services that have been set up to help the children and parents in such families are located in and administered by a number of different organisations. Effective collaboration, joint working across the many interfaces, and a focus on the family as a whole are essential if children and their parents are to receive appropriate help, advice and guidance.
Working together to improve the mental health of indigenous children: a systematic review
- Authors:
- LOPEZ-CARMEN Victor, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 104, 2019, p.104408.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Objective: This review analyses the available literature that underpins intersectoral service integration processes and tools designed to improve mental healthcare for Indigenous children. Method: 10 databases and 12 grey literature sources were searched for publications in English and published between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2017 that evaluated or measured primary health care interventions that focussed on the intersectoral integration of services, service partnerships, or action across at least two sectors to improve children's mental health, and that included Indigenous children 4–17 years old in one of the five CANNZUS countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and/or the United States). The five sectors considered were PHC, specialist mental health, education, child protection, and juvenile justice. Study characteristics were extracted and reported aims, strategies, enablers, and outcomes were identified and analysed. Results: Eleven studies were included: five were Australian; four Canadian; one from the USA; and one from New Zealand. Nine key strategies for service integration were: intervention delivery through community workers and external workers, interdisciplinary delivery, staff and organizational capacity building, engaging community, empowering families, individual counselling, adaption of care to Indigenous sociocultural specificities, and strengthening culture and identity. Six enablers of implementation were: involvement of community, access and cost, collaborative multidisciplinary health services, strong relationships, cultural sensitivity, and organizational and staff capacity. Six outcomes were: health and human services collaboration, psychosocial functioning and stress management, health service & organizational empowerment, development and promotion of appropriate health policy and protocols, linkage of health services, and community and family empowerment. Discussion and conclusion: The evidence for intersectoral interventions addressing Indigenous child mental health is in the early stages of development, but suggests potential for improving health outcomes for Indigenous children, their families and communities, as well as the satisfaction and utilization of healthcare and community services. Further research surrounding cost evaluation, impact on the social determinants of health, extent of consumer engagement, and Indigenous voice is needed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Government response to the first joint report of the Education and Health and Social Care Committees of session 2017-19 on Transforming children and young people's mental health provision: a green paper
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
Government response to the joint report of the Education and Health and Social Care Committees entitled ‘The government’s green paper on mental health: failing a generation’. The response acknowledges some the concerns of the Committees' inquiry, including the need for the Green Paper proposals to integrate into existing provision and services around children and young people; the need to join up with existing work across government; and the importance of the proposals having a positive impact on vulnerable groups. However, it reject the Committees’ assertion that the plans lack ambition in terms of scale and pace. It argues that making available £300 million to support the proposals, represents a major addition to the existing extensive programme of transformation around children and young people’s mental health. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Government's Green Paper on mental health: failing a generation: first joint report of the Education and Health Committees of session 2017-19
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee, GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Health and Social Care Committee
- Publisher:
- House of Commons
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint response from the Education and Health and Social Care Committees to the Government's Green Paper on transforming children and young people's mental health published in 2017. This report argues that the Government's proposed Green Paper lacks ambition and will provide no help to the majority of those children who need it. The report is based on evidence provided to the Committee. The report criticises the narrow scope of the Green Paper and says that it does not take several vulnerable groups into account, and the proposals put significant pressure on the teaching workforce without guaranteeing sufficient resources. Another concern is that there is also little or no attention to prevention or early intervention in the Green Paper. The Committee also wants to see more evidence that the changes proposed in the Green Paper will join up services in a way that places children and young people at the heart of the strategy. (Edited publisher abstract)