Many of the services that work with young people either end or begin at age 18, leaving them without effective support. But there are examples of services that are helping young adults through this difficult transition.
Cutting early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services puts young people at risk of worse health and poorer life chances.
The OECD report recognises that mental ill health is a major problem and that it is a problem creating significant costs for people, employers and the economy.
In order for services to support recovery, we need clear, empirically informed statements of what constitutes high-quality services and how these will lead to key recovery outcomes.
Lots of positive work has happened since the ‘No Health without Mental Health’ strategy was published, but there is a lot more still to do.
Wanting the best for my children looks at the experiences of parents and how systems might work better to support families managing early behavioural difficulties.
Parenting programmes more than pay for themselves through future savings in public spending, spread across a range of budgets including education, health, social care and criminal justice.
These briefings set out what childhood behavioural problems are, how to recognise the signs, what can be done, how to engage parents and the referral process.
Just weeks after exposing pressures on acute beds in mental health services, today there are further warnings about spending cuts in community teams across England.
Secure mental health services provide accommodation, treatment and support for people with severe mental health problems who pose a risk to the public.
