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:
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.
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