Improving children’s mental health
New research sets out the challenges of delivering better outcomes for children and young people – and how councils can mitigate these by acting early to resolve issues before they escalate.
mental health
Children’s mental health cases up by over half
Councils are seeing more than 560 cases of children with mental health disorders every day – an increase of more than 50 per cent in just four years.
New proposals on preventing mental illness
Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged extra funding for councils to help develop and strengthen their suicide prevention plans, as part of a wider prevention plan on mental health.
Drop in spending on children’s mental health
More than a third of local areas in England have reduced real-terms spending on ‘low-level’ children’s mental health services, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Young minds
Increased funding and improved crisis care were among the pledges for children and young people’s mental health services in the NHS’s recently published Long Term Plan.