This House of Commons briefing paper gives an outline of: recent studies on the mental health of students, Government mental health policy for students, support in further and higher education providers, the legal duties of providers and discusses issues raised.
The Health Committee hears from experts, officials and representatives of child and adolescent mental health charities at a single evidence session on Tuesday 21 November.
i-Rock is a drop-in centre for young people aged 14-25, where they are able to come and seek support for a number of things including mental health, wellbeing, housing, employment and education. Since opening in July 2016, the service has seen over 370 young people, 35% of whom said that they would not have accessed other services had i-Rock not been there for them.
i-Rock is a partnership service led by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, East Sussex County Council and Hastings & Rother CCG. The project works closely with a wide range of third sector providers including Princes Trust, Education Futures Trust, Youth Employability Service and Counselling Plus.
The report confirms many of the issues raised in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health published in 2016 and in particular, comments on the difficulties children and young people face in accessing appropriate support for their mental health concerns from a system that is fragmented and where services vary in quality.
This POSTnote describes some of the new models of Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) and examines the challenges to their effective implementation.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new facility which will provide a place of safety at Royal Preston Hospital in Central Lancashire. The facility will support young people under the age of 19 who come in to contact with the police and are experiencing mental ill health.
The Rigby Suite is a 24 hour facility that provides place of safety and de-escalation for young people for a period up to 72 hours. The unit will allow staff to conduct a full assessment of any mental health needs and will support signposting on to appropriate services following the assessment including an inpatient admission or community mental health services where required. The Trust has worked in collaboration with service users to choose the name and influence the colour schemes and furniture.
Jenny, a Clinical Psychologist from our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Bristol, attended multiple groups during her travels including learning about Attachment and BioBehavioural Catchup (a 10-session intervention delivered in the home using video to help parents behave in more nurturing ways towards their child), The Peek a Boo Club, (a group intervention in Melbourne for mothers and young children who have experienced domestic violence) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy training in San Francisco (a 50-session in-depth intervention informed by trauma theory).
The Trust has introduced a new mental health service to support children and young people living in and around Scarborough.
The new crisis resolution home treatment service launches on 31 July and will provide specialised community care to children and young people in a mental health crisis.
The service will work in partnership with GP’s, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) teams, local authorities and other supporting services to reduce mental health difficulties, limit further deterioration and lessen the likelihood of further risk to young people experiencing mental ill-health.
The new Oxfordshire CAMHS will provide an integrated service with third sector partners that will build community and individual resilience, educate other agencies around emotional wellbeing and mental health, prevention, early consultation, advice, treatment and self-management.
Our third sector partners will support CAMHS provision to add value to the services offered to the local community. These partners include:
Barnardo’s;
Autism Family Support;
Response;
•Oxfordshire Youth;
SOFEA (South Oxfordshire Food and Education Association);
TRAX;
RAW;
Ark T;
Synolos;
BYHP (Banbury Young Homeless Project);
CAMHS in Oxfordshire will work across the different aspects of treatment from early intervention and initial diagnosis, through to support and advice.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has recently launched a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Liaison Service to help prevent avoidable admissions to hospital. The service will initially run as a pilot for six months and will then be reviewed.
The role of the new team is to ensure under 18s are not admitted to hospital unnecessarily following self-harm, overdose, or thoughts of suicide. They are instead treated in the community, wherever possible.
The team will assess patients in A&E and where possible they will create a safe discharge plan with pre-arranged follow up from the team or from another CAMHS worker. The liaison nurses work closely with paediatric colleagues, community CAMHS teams, Social Care and other agencies as appropriate to ensure young people’s needs are met safely.
In a new report, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has examined the state of child and adolescent mental health inpatient services in England. The analysis explores the latest evidence and NHS data on admissions, quality of care, staffing and capacity.
Myplace is an exciting and innovative collaboration between Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and The Lancashire Wildlife Trust and is funded by close to £1m in Big Lottery Funding that is administered by the national ‘Our Bright Future’ campaign for young people.
The Myplace project encourages young people aged 13 – 24 years old to explore the environment by offering opportunities to participate in eco-therapy based activities where they can develop new skills, increase their self-esteem, build resilience and improve their own self-confidence. By getting involved in activities outdoors young people can reduce their stress levels, prevent mental health problems and improve their concentration and mood.
Our Trust, along with Surrey County Council and Guildford and Waverley CCG, has launched a new service that offers 10-18 year olds a place to talk about things they are struggling to deal with. The Haven, based at the Discovery Centre in Guildford, is open for a two year trial period to give children and young people a chance to meet other young people as well as get help with any difficulties they may have.
ChatHealth now receives on average one or two text messages per week. Due to the low number of text messages we have made the decision to cease the service and utilise our resources more effectively in delivering tailored support to schools’ individual needs.
Cumbria County Council is in the process of reviewing the online emotional support offer that will be available for young people; in the near future more information will be circulated as appropriate.
Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services were based on data. Health services need evidence from the populations that they serve to plan care and know whether they are meeting children's needs, duplicating effort or allowing some children to fall through the net. In this paper, we describe how the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) programme has joined up data from health, education and social services for children living in four local authorities in South London to create two datasets: one linking hospital to children's mental health services and the second linking mental health data to education data. We describe these resources, give examples of how they are being used to improve services and discuss what is needed to implement this approach more widely across the UK. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This study is the first to identify how therapist reported adaptations vary across multiple EBPs within a mental health system reform. Findings suggest most therapists report augmenting EBPs to fit the local context, whereas adaptations reducing or rearranging EBP components are less common but more likely when therapists hold a negative view of the EBP. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details
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