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Improving children's outcomes by supporting parental physical and mental health
- Authors:
- BLEWETT James, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 138p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research review examines what works in improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers. It presents evidence designed to help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families. There are estimated to be 150,000 young carers in the UK, 30 per cent of who are believed to be caring for adults with mental health needs, over 200,000 children and young people living with a parent whose drug use is problematic, and 1.4 million children are living with at least one parent who drinks excessively. Key findings show that there is an association between parental health difficulties and children’s safety, health and wellbeing, but the exact mechanisms involved are only partially understood. Resilience in children has been identified as a key factor in mediating poor outcomes for them, even in circumstances which might appear to be adverse. Adult services can provide valuable examples of providing a personalised approach to problems in order to produce personalised outcomes. However, access to services by family members is impeded by the current system of gate-keeping by means of thresholds.
Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers: research review 1
- Authors:
- BLEWETT James, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 111p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research review describes what works in improving the safety, health and well-being of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers. It is based on a review of the research literature involving systematic searching of literature and presentation of key data. It summarises the best available evidence that will help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families. Individual chapters discuss the available evidence in the following areas: the proportion of mothers, fathers and carers experience mental and/or physical health problems; the relationship between mothers’, fathers’ and carers’ mental and physical health and their children’s safety, health and wellbeing; and interventions and support mechanisms are most effective in increasing children’s safety, health and wellbeing through improving mothers’, fathers’ and carers’ a) physical and b) mental health. The review suggests that current service configuration – especially the split between adult and children’s services – poses a key challenge to the effective delivery of services that can meet the needs of both children and their families. Adult services can provide valuable examples of providing a personalised approach to problems in order to produce personalised outcomes, so that targeted support is not seen as stigmatising by parents, children and young people. Access to services by family members is impeded by the current system of gate-keeping by means of thresholds; i.e. an access point at which access to one or more service/s is judged necessary on the basis of risk or need.