Parent Infant Partnership (PIPUK) have conducted, on behalf of the Conception to Age 2:First 1001 Days All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), a call to action in order to develop a shared framework.
The ACP responded to the consultation on the long-term plan for the NHS.
On the 24 September BBC Panorama aired the programme Kids in Crisis which followed presenter Sean Fletcher, whose own teenage son has been hospitalised with severe obsessive compulsive disorder, as he investigates Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The ACP Contributed in a number of ways to the Panorama programme, which included an interview with our CEO, Nick Waggett.
Children with mental health problems in many coastal areas across Britain are less able to access support despite having greater need, according to evidence submitted to a parliamentary inquiry.
We have completed an Impact Assessment which demonstrates the Value of the NHS funding the training of child Psychotherapists, and what would be lost were the current funding arrangements to be changed in any significant way. This has been sent to the leaders of Health Education England, senior management and policy makers in the NHS and the Department of Health, leaders of organisations that have influence over government polict and relevant politicians of all parties and members of the House of Lords.
The ACP responded to a House of Lords Select Committee inquiry on Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities. Although the committee is not focussing on mental health this was an opportunity to make the point that access to child and adolescent psychotherapy is very limited in many coastal areas and seaside towns.
The ACP has submitted evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry into the First 1000 Days of Life. Members of the ACP working in this crucial area provided an excellent resource of information about the contribution that child psychotherapists are making to improving services during the period from conception to age 2.
The ACP responded to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health inquiry into the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The ACP’s response focussed specifically on the 5YFV for mental health’s plans for improving services for children and young people (CYP). Within this we highlighted the needs of vulnerable CYP with the most severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties who require specialist services, and a highly skilled workforce in order to deliver those services.
The ACP wrote to The Guardian to express our shock that under the immigration detention policy the UK government is operating the same cruel practice of separating child from their parents as the US government is doing on the US-Mexican border. Read the full letter here.
