Support for children and young people's mental health (England)

  Katherine Garratt, Judy Laing, Rob Long

  House of Commons Library

   06/2022

 

Successive Governments have pledged to improve mental health support for children and young people. This briefing covers the structure of Children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMHS), recent Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS policy, and evaluations of Government policy.

1 Children and young people’s mental health services
1.1 Mental health data collection

2 Government policies on children and young people’s mental health
2.1 No Health Without Mental Health (2011)
2.2 Introduction of waiting time standards
2.3 Children’s Mental Health Taskforce and Future in Mind (March 2015
2.4 The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (February 2016) and Government response
2.5 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper (December 2017)
2.6 The NHS Long Term Plan (2019)
2.7 Mental health clinically-led review of standards (2021)
2.8 Suicide prevention
2.9 COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan (2021)
2.10 Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan

3 The Mental Health Act and reform
3.1 Use of the Mental Health Act to detain children and young people
3.2 Use of police cells to detain children and young people under the Mental Health Act
3.3 Impact of proposed Mental Health Act reforms

4 Mental health in schools
4.1 Green paper: Impact on schools
4.2 Government announcement on suicide prevention
4.3 Mental health education on the curriculum: 2020 reforms
4.4 Earlier Government policy on mental health support in schools Support for children and young people’s mental health (England)

5 Evaluations and commentary
5.1 CQC review of CAMHS
5.2 Joint Education and Health and Social Care Committee inquiry on the Government’s 2017 Green Paper on mental health
5.3 National Audit Office: progress review of Future in Mind
5.4 Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services for children and young people
5.5 Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry into Children and Young People’s Mental Health
5.6 Children’s Commissioner reports
5.7 UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7196/CBP-7196.pdf