Children and Young People: Mental Health
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The mental health and wellbeing of children & young people aged 0-25 in Wirral
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This project built upon a report produced for the Networked Data Lab (NDL) Project 2: Children & Young People’s Mental Health in Liverpool and Wirral (2022), which provided local insights on patterns of mental health service usage for children and young people living in both Liverpool and Wirral https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/charts-and-infographics/children-and-young-people-s-mental-health
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The Networked Data Lab (NDL) and University of Liverpool (UofL) worked with Wirral CCG, who completed the original dataset linkages, a significant exercise which was an integral platform for the University of Liverpool’s analysis
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The NDL project was undertaken following a report published by the Children’s Commissioner which showed that rates of probable mental disorders in children had increased by 6% since 2018, to one in six (16%) in July 2020
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The impact of the pandemic and growing concern that child health, already at crisis point pre COVID-19, would suffer further as the country emerges from the pandemic
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Proposed aims of the initial research were as follows: Which population groups are at increased risk of negative mental health outcomes due to the COVID-19 crisis? What were the factors driving increased risk? How did they change over time? What was the associated change in demand for services?
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Wirral-specific analysis used data from January 2017 through to July 2021 (Mental Health Services Dataset) and September 2021 (A&E attendances and hospital admissions data), to show a pre-COVID and during COVID picture of mental health among local children & young people
Emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people
The emotional health and wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health and wellbeing. Over the past few years there has been a growing recognition of the need to make dramatic improvements to mental health services for children and young people.
Mental health problems cause distress to individuals and all those who care for them. One in ten children needs support or treatment for mental health problems. These range from short spells of depression or anxiety through to severe and persistent conditions that can isolate, disrupt and frighten those who experience them.
Read the 'Mental Health of children in England' report.
Current Local Transformation Plan under annual review and will be published in Spring 2020. Underpinning evidence base being reviewed and the pages below will be updated shortly.
What is known ...
Mental illnesses are a leading cause of health related disabilities...
Facts about mental illness in children and young people...
Risk and protective factors for children and young peoples mental health
So what we have ...
Wirral Future in Mind plans
Please note:
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We have been informed that future Local Transformation Plans, as previously produced, will not be required and we will in future be contributing towards a new Cheshire and Mersey wide strategy in light of forthcoming changes in the form of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and these will be published in Spring 2022.
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Any underpinning evidence base for this wider and then local approaches will be included on this web page when produced.
Previously
The Future in Mind plan for Wirral was originally submitted to NHS England in October 2015, and published in January 2016.
This 2018 - 2019/20 refreshed Future in Mind Local Transformation Plan sets out how commissioning organisations and its partners will transform local services to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families, meeting the aspirations set out by the Government in their national strategy for children and young people’s mental health: Future in Mind, the Healthy Wirral Plan and the Vision 2020.
It is a high level plan that sets out how we will work with our stakeholders to bring about change on the way to 2020/21.
Since the publication of the first plan there has been significant investment and progress made on the journey to transform services for children and young people’s mental health, to achieve the national Future in Mind ambitions.
Evidence Base to support Local Plans
Please note:
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We have been informed that future Local Transformation Plans, as previously produced, will not be required and we will in future be contributing towards a new Cheshire and Mersey wide strategy in light of forthcoming changes in the form of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and these will be published in Spring 2022.
- Any underpinning evidence base for this wider and then local approaches will be included on this web page when produced.
Previously
Wirral’s local approach in response to the national direction and local need is set out in Forward Thinking: Children and Young People Mental Health and Wellbeing Transformation Plan 2018 - 2019/20
The development of the local evidence base to inform service provision and commissioning has been led by Future in Mind Steering Group members and Wirral Intelligence Service. This evidence base that underpins this work is outlined below.
Performance and outcomes for local Future in Mind delivery
Below are those key indicators within the Public Health Outcomes Framework that provide and overview of how Wirral is performing on the measures that matter and in comparison to other areas
Further Information, Insight and Assessment of Need
We continue to work across partners and within organisations to best understand our local children and young people population and that in turn will support our current service provision and future commissioning of services. Some information we have gathered is below:
THRIVE model
Using the THRIVE model as a starting point, Wirral sees very close links between the provision of mental health services and local authority services, such as the “coping” element of THRIVE being supported by both the CAMHS Primary Mental Health Workers and the “Self Help” and universal support provided by the local authority.
