One Wrong Turn?:
A conference for practitioners to help
children and young people make positive
life choices and promote emotional health
and well-being
Future in Mind
• Children’s emotional wellbeing and mental health is not
always given the attention it needs
• Too many families have experienced poor children’s and
adolescent mental health care
• Progress in the last few years, but it remains unacceptable that not every
child gets the help they need when and where they need it.
• Some don’t get any care at all, and their problems escalate to a crisis
point.
• There are many highly skilled and highly valued staff working with
children who want to make a real and lasting difference to their lives
but there are barriers in the system itself which prevent change.
• This isn’t just about funding. What is needed is a fundamental shift in
culture. A whole system approach is needed focusing on prevention of
mental ill health, early intervention and recovery.
Norman Lamb
Minister of State for Care and Support
Transformation Plan
• Local Transformation Plans are part of a national focus on improving
children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health.
• Embedded in a truly integrated challenge to change the way we think
about emotional wellbeing and mental health: strengthening resilience,
improving services and tackling the stigma associated with mental
health services.
• A group of people committed to improve services for children and
young people has come together to work jointly on this, including
commissioners, education, social care, health settings, GPs, primary care
health professionals, voluntary and community groups and children,
their families and their carers.
• Looks at the whole complicated picture around emotional wellbeing
and mental health for children and young people. It sets out our
response to the ‘Future in Mind’ 49 recommendations
Transformation Plan
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School Emotional Health and Wellbeing Network - this was set up recently with
Secondary Schools, Commissioners, School Nursing Team and CAMHS services
and was developed as part of the Tier 1 Project Sue Stirling completed in
2014/2015.
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The network is designed to provide Schools and Commissioners an opportunity
to discuss and share best practice information and expertise on emotional health
and wellbeing, build upon and strengthen links and partnership working with
CAMHS services and provide useful information for Commissioners to consider in
future work.
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Emotional Health and Wellbeing Update - If services would like to be added to
the circulation list please contact [email protected].
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CAMHS Stakeholder event - Held on Friday 29th January and attended by
approx 70+ guests from a wide variety of services that deliver emotional health
and wellbeing support and treatment.
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The event was arranged to gather information and intelligence from frontline
workers that we can use for our future Specialist CAMHS Services.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU63buP-iUg