Documents and Links

If you would like to receive our periodic information bulletin on recent developments in children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing please contact laura.whixton@nhs.net.

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Key Documents

Useful Documents & Links

Local Transformation Plans

Condition Specific Factsheets and online training

Key Documents for Schools & In It Together: SEMH Competency Frameworks

Key Documents for Eating Disorders

Key Documents for Transition

All Age Mental Health

Help for Children and Young People

Future In Mind Data Pack & Dashboard 

Key Documents CYP Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing

• National CAMHS Taskforce Report (Future in Mind 2015)
• Tier 4 Review (2014)
• Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Services (2016) Easy Read version available here.
• Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Services (2016)
• Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017
• Mental health problems in children and young people: guidance for parents and carers 
• NHS Long Term Plan 

Useful Documents & Links

• AYPH & Public Health Young People's Resilience Toolkit/Resource (2016)
• CAMHS Strategic Modelling Tool
• CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Website
• Digital World and Online Safety - for an understanding of children and young people's digital world.  See also Net Aware.
• Improving Mental Health Support for our Children and Young People SCIE (2017)
• iThrive
• Mental Health First Aid Training - Youth
• NICE Resources for CYP Mental Health
• Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children - statutory guidance (2015)
• Youth Wellbeing Directory - Find support for mental health and wellbeing of young people up to age 25 across the UK.
• Stairways' Charter for CYP Mental Health Services
• STOMP - Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both
• Suicide - Help is at Hand; support after someone may have died by suicide
• Toolkit for Creating Whole System CYP MH Workforce Strategies
• What Good Looks Like for CYP Crisis/Urgent & Emergency Mental Health Care

Local Transformation Plans - Yorkshire & the Humber (Refreshed October 2019)

• Barnsley (not yet available)
• Bassetlaw (not yet available online)
• Bradford District & City, Airedale, Wharfedale & Craven (not yet available)
• Calderdale
• Doncaster
• East Riding
• Hambleton, Richmond & Whitby
• Harrogate & Rural District
• Hull
• Leeds
• North East Lincolnshire
• North Kirklees & Greater Huddersfield
• North Lincolnshire
• Rotherham
• Scarborough & Ryedale
• Sheffield
• Vale of York  
• Wakefield
• Local Transformation Plan Guidance (2015)

Condition Specific Factsheets

Need a fact sheet on a particular aspect of children and young people's mental health? Then look at the Royal College of Psychiatrists page here which has lots of information for young people themselves as well as parents, carers and anyone who works with children and young people.  Alternatively you can find lots of useful factsheets here, which are provided by Orygen.

For support after someone has died from suicide please see Help at Hand.

To learn more about children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing there are lots of online e-learning sessions available at MindEd.  Sessions are available to work through for professionals and volunteers, as well as parents and carers.

To access FREE online suicide prevention training click here.

Key Documents for Schools

• Case Studies from Yorkshire & Humber via our series of Webinars in June 2016
• DfE - Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools; Departmental Advice for School Staff (2018)
• It It Together - SEMH Competency Frameworks
• Mental Health First Aid Training - Schools
• National Children’s Bureau – A Whole School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
• PHE & Anna Freud Centre - A Toolkit for Schools and Colleges: Measuring and monitoring cyp mental wellbeing
• PHE – Building children and young people’s resilience in schools
• PHE Whole School & College Approach - Promoting Children and Young People's Emotional Health and Wellbeing (2015)
• Hull City Council: Trauma Guide for Schools
• Response to the select committee report on the children and young people's mental health green paper
• Summary of Mental Health Support Available to Schools (Autumn 2019)
• Guide for Education Settings Supporting CYP Mental Health Needs as a Result of COVID-19

Key Documents for Eating Disorders

• Eating Disorders - Access & Waiting Time Commissioning Guidance (2015)
• Addendum - Inpatient and Intensive Day Care Extension to the Community Eating Disorder Guidance
• FAQ - Access and Waiting Times Indicators for EIP and CYP with an ED
• SYEDA: Early Signs of Eating Disorders
• More available on our Eating Disorder page including information for children, young people, families and professionals.

Key Documents for Transition

• Model Specification for Transitions from CAMHS (2015)
• Transition Tooklit
• 1. Transition to Adult Services Questionnaire
• 2. Post Transition to Adult Services Questionnaire
• 3. During and Post Transition to Adult Services Questionnaire
• 4. Transition to Discharge Questionnaire
• 5. Post Transition to Discharge Questionnaire
• 6. During and Post Transition to Discharge Questionnaire
• Transition Masterclass: Working with Adolescents Training Pack
• Meeting the Needs of Young Adults Within Models of Mental Health Care

All Age Mental Health

• NHS Education for Scotland Wellbeing Planning Tool

Via Adult Mental Health Clinical Network

Help for Children and Young People

Have a look at the resources and links available towards the bottom of the Stairways page.  We have been collecting a list of digital resources (including apps and websites) that are helping children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing. These resources are further categorised by their intended audience, be it children and young people themselves or schools etc. and are available here.   In the context of Coronavirus, this comic can help explain what it is.  For those supporting children and young people with special education needs (SEN), this guide from Hull City Council to loss and bereavement will be of interest.   Additionally, in the context of COVID-19 these tips on handwashing will be useful.

If you feel something is missing please contact laura.whixton@nhs.net.

Anti-Stigma Campaigns & Resources

Here are some specific Eating Disorder resources.  

Here are some specific Body Image campaigns.

Here are some specific LGBT resources and campaigns.

Think You Know - The National Crime Agency's intensive campaign to raise awareness of child exploitation and prevent sexual abuse and in particular online grooming.