CYP Green Paper Programme Evaluation - Phase 2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluating the implementation of the Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision Green Paper.
IRAS ID
341216
Contact name
Nicholas Mays
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
30441, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 7 months, 4 days
Research summary
In 2017, the Department of Health and Department for Education published plans to improve support for children and young people experiencing poor mental health. There are three key parts to the programme: 1. encouraging schools and further education colleges to select a member of staff to lead on mental health and wellbeing; 2. creating new mental health support teams (MHSTs) to help schools and colleges promote mental wellbeing for all, and directly help children with mild to moderate mental health problems; and 3. testing how to achieve a maximum waiting time of four weeks for children and young people to access specialist help.
The National Institute for Health Research is funding an evaluation to understand what difference the programme is making to: children, young people, and their parents or carers; schools and colleges; mental health services; and the way in which different professionals and services work together to support children’s wellbeing and mental health. The evaluation will gather and make sense of data that have already been collected (from the NHS, schools and colleges), as well as collecting additional data using surveys, self-completion questionnaires, group interviews and one-to-one interviews. It will find out about children and young people’s experiences of receiving help from an MHST, and about the teams’ experiences of providing help. The evaluation team will talk to staff in schools and colleges to find out if the programme has helped them to support the wellbeing of children and young people in their setting, including those who have not received individual help from an MHST. The team will explore the different ways that local areas involved in the programme are providing their MHST service, and what they have learned from this. They will also try to understand the costs of setting up and delivering the service.
REC name
London - London Bridge Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/PR/1376
Date of REC Opinion
16 Dec 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion