Emotional Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Children and Young People 2009-2014
A Comprehensive Multi-Agency Approach to Children and Young People's Emotional Health & Wellbeing
Work is underway to devise a successor to the CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) Strategy 2005-08. The new title for the strategy indicates that it will have a wider remit than just NHS specialist CAMHS services.
Poor emotional health has an impact on physical health, educational achievement, employment, parenting, relationships, smoking, substance misuse, unwanted pregnancy, and crime. It is key to the future life chances of children and young people.
The aim of the strategy will be to coordinate the planning and commissioning of services to ensure that resources of all agencies are used in the most effective way possible to improve the educational health of children and young people in Bristol.
Over the last year a multi agency stakeholder group has been meeting.
What we have done so far:
- We have agreed Aim, Objectives and Principles after consultation;
- We have consulted with young people, parents and staff, and identified gaps;
- We have undertaken analysis of needs and plans;
- We have looked at research and good practice.
Putting this together, we have developed a picture of what needs to be in place to improve children's emotional health and wellbeing.
Where we are now
- We have developed a draft strategy and commissioning plan, with allocated responsibilities and a monitoring plan
- We are circulating this widely to get people's views and comments.
The consultation runs from 9th February to 30th April 2009, the strategy and a response form are available here to the right.
We will then revise the strategy on the basis of this consultation.
Resources
Paper 1: Agreed aims, objectives and principles of the strategy. Needs in Bristol - statistical data, views of children, young people, and parents, views of multi agency staff, and gaps identified. The direction of national policy, and local policies and plans.
Paper 2: Research findings relevant to children's emotional health and well being.
Paper 3: Examples of projects that have been found to improve the emotional health of children and young people. Some of the evaluations were independent, and some based on routine outcomes data collection. Many of the examples are based in schools, and it may be that this paper could be helpful for schools considering strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being.
These papers are downloadable on the right of this page.
If you require further information please see the documents available on the right of the page or contact Sue Topalian, CAMHS and Joint Commissioning Development Officer at jcu [at] bristol [dot] gov [dot] uk
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