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Participation through the Pandemic (2021-2022)
...with they have moved to an outdoor field and changed the services and support they offer. CAMHS Participation Project delivered NHS Dumfries and Galloway NHS Dumfries and Galloway have worked with SAMH to provide a creative art project...
Q&A with Kara Brown: “There’s still stigma surrounding mental health, but it’s getting better”
...In the press, we hear about waiting times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), for example, and we’ll read an opinion from someone in the NHS or the head of an organisation, but you don't always hear directly from...
Equality of access, sustained investment, and a supported workforce: what we need from a national mental health strategy
...for children and young people to stop problems deteriorating to the extent they require specialist CAMHS services, and stated that this must include: Targeted support for groups at risk of poorer mental health Wider, year-round access to mental...
Youth Advisory Group launched as part of Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan
...completed a PhD exploring the experiences and journeys of care for children who are referred to CAMHS for reasons of suicidality. As part of this work, she led an international scoping review of suicide prevention policies. The 2019 study found...
Child protection child safety Legislation Scottish GovernmentA passion for making change: the power of young people’s advisory groups
...an input at the 2020 (online) annual conference where I spoke about my own experience of accessing CAMHS. It is vital that young people with lived experiences are sharing their views with organisations that often only give a platform to...
Our view on the Programme for Government: Positive pledges on youth jobs and climate, more ambition needed on family support and fighting poverty
...structural determinants of poorer mental health. “We also would query the necessity of a further CAMHS recovery plan in response to COVID-19 given the breadth of work over the recent years that has shown the changes needed to mental health...
communities Education environment Health Inequalities programme for government UNCRC25 Calls response: Here’s what’s missing from the debate about how to transform mental health outcomes for children
...with the recommendation of the Youth Commission on Mental Health Services that ‘young adult’ CAMHS services should be available between 16 and 25, and adult services from 21. We also welcome the Scottish Government’s provision of more...
25 Calls response: How one boy’s journey illustrates the message we must give all children: it’s ok to talk
...it was difficult not to think this was some kind of mental health issue. "He was referred to CAMHS and in the long waiting time, to his GP, who prescribed an anti-depressant. No-one talked to him." There seemed to be no obvious cause....
2019-20 Programme for Government: our verdict
...services to support children young people and families. An extra £4 million will be invested in CAMHS in response to the initial recommendations of the Taskforce. “Despite this investment, we are concerned that mental health provision for...
"We're not doing well enough on child mental health," First Minister tells young people from across Scotland
...would invest more money in mental health support services. Despite being through the system of CAMHS, she was not diagnosed until aged 18 by adult services. She told the First Minister that the current system had failed her. The First Minister...
Brexit bullying Children's rights Education equality food poverty Inequality Mental Health Participation PovertyNew mainstreaming guidance welcome – but gap between policy and young people’s lived experience must be resolved
...system intensify yearly due to unceasing budget cuts, decreasing numbers of support staff, scarce CAMHS and Educational Psychology services, and limited professional learning for teachers.’ We need to be upfront and honest about this core...
25 Calls response: Transforming mental health support for young people must be about their real needs, not just symptoms and diagnosis
...of working with young people trying to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) [1]. They told us one of the key reasons for young people being rejected from specialist services is symptoms not being severe enough. They...
Mental health report finds provision is failing to meet the needs of children and young people
...young people A major report published today on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) warns that the current system is still geared towards specialist care and responding to crisis, rather than early intervention and...
‘Benefit cap will increase child poverty and perpetuate health inequalities’
...and their children. This is likely to contribute to an increasing level of pressure on the NHS, CAMHS and a wide array of other services, and contribute to increased costs for the government and local authorities.” Last year, the UK...
Benefits Families News Poverty Welfare WestminsterEmbedding mental health interventions in school
...a 14 year high in the number of self-harm cases seen in A&E last year. The waiting list for CAMHS in some areas is up to 18 months long, despite access to mental health support for children and young people being a human right. Children...
Education Mental HealthLizz Toomey
...teacher in and around London. Her last teaching role was English Lead at a school in a low-secure CAMHS hospital for young people sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She has a keen interest in youth participation and children’s rights as well...
toomeyFresh warnings over child mental health pandemic
...over child mental health pandemic Posted 8 September, 2021 by Jennifer Drummond CAMHS Mental Health New figures published this week show the number of children and young people waiting for treatment from...
CAMHS Mental HealthNo commitment on Scottish Child Payment
...of £120m in mental health services in the year ahead, including funding to deliver CAMHS and reduce waiting lists Investment of £1bn over the course of the parliament to continue work to close the poverty-related attainment...
early learning and childcare Education Mental HealthSuffering in silence
...delays in referrals (and then appointments) with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This shortage of provision has been well-documented and is being addressed. However, an increase in counselling services for children and...
Sea change or same old?
...problems amongst children and young people are also alarming, particularly when matched by a CAMHS system under strain and dealing with problems far too late. In response, this year we have seen an obesity strategy published and a raft of...
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...and young people A major report on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) warns that the current system is still geared towards specialist care and responding to crisis, rather than early intervention and...
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Q&A with Kara Brown: “There’s still stigma surrounding mental health, but it’s getting better”
...In the press, we hear about waiting times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), for example, and we’ll read an opinion from someone in the NHS or the head of an organisation, but you don't always hear directly from...
Equality of access, sustained investment, and a supported workforce: what we need from a national mental health strategy
...for children and young people to stop problems deteriorating to the extent they require specialist CAMHS services, and stated that this must include: Targeted support for groups at risk of poorer mental health Wider, year-round access to mental...
Youth Advisory Group launched as part of Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan
...completed a PhD exploring the experiences and journeys of care for children who are referred to CAMHS for reasons of suicidality. As part of this work, she led an international scoping review of suicide prevention policies. The 2019 study found...
Child protection child safety Legislation Scottish GovernmentA passion for making change: the power of young people’s advisory groups
...an input at the 2020 (online) annual conference where I spoke about my own experience of accessing CAMHS. It is vital that young people with lived experiences are sharing their views with organisations that often only give a platform to...
Our view on the Programme for Government: Positive pledges on youth jobs and climate, more ambition needed on family support and fighting poverty
...structural determinants of poorer mental health. “We also would query the necessity of a further CAMHS recovery plan in response to COVID-19 given the breadth of work over the recent years that has shown the changes needed to mental health...
communities Education environment Health Inequalities programme for government UNCRC25 Calls response: Here’s what’s missing from the debate about how to transform mental health outcomes for children
...with the recommendation of the Youth Commission on Mental Health Services that ‘young adult’ CAMHS services should be available between 16 and 25, and adult services from 21. We also welcome the Scottish Government’s provision of more...
25 Calls response: How one boy’s journey illustrates the message we must give all children: it’s ok to talk
...it was difficult not to think this was some kind of mental health issue. "He was referred to CAMHS and in the long waiting time, to his GP, who prescribed an anti-depressant. No-one talked to him." There seemed to be no obvious cause....
2019-20 Programme for Government: our verdict
...services to support children young people and families. An extra £4 million will be invested in CAMHS in response to the initial recommendations of the Taskforce. “Despite this investment, we are concerned that mental health provision for...
"We're not doing well enough on child mental health," First Minister tells young people from across Scotland
...would invest more money in mental health support services. Despite being through the system of CAMHS, she was not diagnosed until aged 18 by adult services. She told the First Minister that the current system had failed her. The First Minister...
Brexit bullying Children's rights Education equality food poverty Inequality Mental Health Participation PovertyNew mainstreaming guidance welcome – but gap between policy and young people’s lived experience must be resolved
...system intensify yearly due to unceasing budget cuts, decreasing numbers of support staff, scarce CAMHS and Educational Psychology services, and limited professional learning for teachers.’ We need to be upfront and honest about this core...
25 Calls response: Transforming mental health support for young people must be about their real needs, not just symptoms and diagnosis
...of working with young people trying to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) [1]. They told us one of the key reasons for young people being rejected from specialist services is symptoms not being severe enough. They...
Mental health report finds provision is failing to meet the needs of children and young people
...young people A major report published today on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) warns that the current system is still geared towards specialist care and responding to crisis, rather than early intervention and...
‘Benefit cap will increase child poverty and perpetuate health inequalities’
...and their children. This is likely to contribute to an increasing level of pressure on the NHS, CAMHS and a wide array of other services, and contribute to increased costs for the government and local authorities.” Last year, the UK...
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Lizz Toomey
...teacher in and around London. Her last teaching role was English Lead at a school in a low-secure CAMHS hospital for young people sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She has a keen interest in youth participation and children’s rights as well...
toomeyNews
...and young people A major report on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) warns that the current system is still geared towards specialist care and responding to crisis, rather than early intervention and...
No results found.
No results found.
Embedding mental health interventions in school
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...a 14 year high in the number of self-harm cases seen in A&E last year. The waiting list for CAMHS in some areas is up to 18 months long, despite access to mental health support for children and young people being a human right. Children...
Education Mental HealthFresh warnings over child mental health pandemic
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...over child mental health pandemic Posted 8 September, 2021 by Jennifer Drummond CAMHS Mental Health New figures published this week show the number of children and young people waiting for treatment from...
CAMHS Mental HealthNo commitment on Scottish Child Payment
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...of £120m in mental health services in the year ahead, including funding to deliver CAMHS and reduce waiting lists Investment of £1bn over the course of the parliament to continue work to close the poverty-related attainment...
early learning and childcare Education Mental HealthSuffering in silence
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...delays in referrals (and then appointments) with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This shortage of provision has been well-documented and is being addressed. However, an increase in counselling services for children and...
Sea change or same old?
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...problems amongst children and young people are also alarming, particularly when matched by a CAMHS system under strain and dealing with problems far too late. In response, this year we have seen an obesity strategy published and a raft of...