Welcome to the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Profiling Tool. It has been developed to support an intelligence driven approach to understanding and meeting need. It provides commissioners, service providers, clinicians, services users and their families with the means to benchmark their area against England, region or similar populations. It collates and analyses a wide range of publically available information on:
In November 2021, an Exploring Inequality domain has been added to this profiling tool. It includes metrics that can be further broken down by population characteristic and by deprivation grouping.
Go to Exploring Inequalityfor an introduction on content and using this new domain.
To go direct to the available metrics click on Inequality in detail
The Children and Young People's section of the Knowledge Guide for Mental Health and Wellbeing JSNAs offers expert advice and links to policy and evidence. The toolkit should be used in conjunction with the return on investment resources to support local commissioners in designing and implementing mental health and wellbeing support services.
NICE publish a range of guidance that is of relevance to Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing including early years, social and emotional wellbeing in primary education, secondary education, and transition from children’s to adults’ health or social care services.
NHS Digital publish a collection of mental health data and interactive dashboards in the Mental Health Data Hub which includes mental health data relating to children and young people in England.
Children and Young’s People’s Mental Health is a key focus of national policies including Closing the Gap: priorities for essential change in mental health (2014), Future in Mind (2015), and The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016).
A review of children and young people's mental health services has been published by the CQC. Phase One of the report looks at the quality and accessibility of these services and a subsequent thematic review includes recommendations to address issues within mental health services.
Exploring Inequality: Learn more about inequality data in secondary mental health services data.
Inequality in detail Examine the range of inequality data in our indicators
New Service domain was added to the profile. The following new indicators were added within this domain:
Both indicators provide breakdown by gender and deprivation quintiles at England, CCG and UTLAs level.
One indicator has been added to the Identification of Need domain (2017/18)
One indicator has been removed from the Identification of Need domain (2015/16)
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2018/19)
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective Factors domain: (2018/19)
No indicators were updated in September 2019
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2016/17 and 2017/18):
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2017/18):
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
Two indicators have been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain (2016 unless stated):
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain (2018):
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective factors domain:
Seven indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain:
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
Four indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
One indicator (Looked after children: rate per 10,000 population aged under 18) has been removed from the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain and replaced with the following indicator:
The following indicator has been added to the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
This indicator reflects an updated methodology for the ‘Not in education employment or training: % of 16 - 18 year olds- historical method' indicator which we plan to remove for the profile in the near future.
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain:
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain:
Two indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
The Confidence Intervals for the following indicator have been corrected:
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017)
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain (2015) (district level, counties were updated previously)
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain (2017)
The following indicator in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability Domain has been amended:
The following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity Domain have been amended:
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Identification of Need domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicator has been updated:
Three indicators were also updated and the name changed from % to rate per 100:
The definition for the following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity and Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domains have also been corrected:
In the definitions tab, the denominator for these indicators were defined as ‘All children identified as 'in need' on 31st March’, however the mid-year population estimate for 0-17 year olds were used. The definition now shows the correct denominator.
In the finance domain, all indicators have been updated:
Opportunity for feedback: We are very interested in any feedback on the downloadable outputs which are available from the download section of the tool. The survey has now closed.
In Identification of Need domain two indicators have been corrected:
These had been calculated using total pupils with SEN as the denominator, instead of total pupils. This has now been corrected.
Release of phase 1 re-developed profile.
If you have any questions or need advice please contact us at mhdnin@phe.gov.uk
Exploring Inequality: Learn more about inequality data in secondary mental health services data.
Inequality in detail Examine the range of inequality data in our indicators
New Service domain was added to the profile. The following new indicators were added within this domain:
Both indicators provide breakdown by gender and deprivation quintiles at England, CCG and UTLAs level.
One indicator has been added to the Identification of Need domain (2017/18)
One indicator has been removed from the Identification of Need domain (2015/16)
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2018/19)
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective Factors domain: (2018/19)
No indicators were updated in September 2019
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2016/17 and 2017/18):
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2017/18):
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
Two indicators have been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain (2016 unless stated):
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain (2018):
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective factors domain:
Seven indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain:
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
Four indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
One indicator (Looked after children: rate per 10,000 population aged under 18) has been removed from the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain and replaced with the following indicator:
The following indicator has been added to the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
This indicator reflects an updated methodology for the ‘Not in education employment or training: % of 16 - 18 year olds- historical method' indicator which we plan to remove for the profile in the near future.
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain:
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain:
Two indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
The Confidence Intervals for the following indicator have been corrected:
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017)
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain (2015) (district level, counties were updated previously)
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain (2017)
The following indicator in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability Domain has been amended:
The following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity Domain have been amended:
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Identification of Need domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicator has been updated:
Three indicators were also updated and the name changed from % to rate per 100:
The definition for the following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity and Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domains have also been corrected:
In the definitions tab, the denominator for these indicators were defined as ‘All children identified as 'in need' on 31st March’, however the mid-year population estimate for 0-17 year olds were used. The definition now shows the correct denominator.
In the finance domain, all indicators have been updated:
Opportunity for feedback: We are very interested in any feedback on the downloadable outputs which are available from the download section of the tool. The survey has now closed.
In Identification of Need domain two indicators have been corrected:
These had been calculated using total pupils with SEN as the denominator, instead of total pupils. This has now been corrected.
Release of phase 1 re-developed profile.
If you have any questions or need advice please contact us at mhdnin@phe.gov.uk
