Mental Health Services: Children

(asked on 15th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the effective use of community resources to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing in (a) the City of York and b) the UK.


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Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 22nd January 2020

Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group, York City Council and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust provide a number of community-based services in the City of York, targeting early identification and intervention to support children’s mental health and wellbeing such as:

- a mental health lead in midwifery, working with expectant mothers and with the perinatal mental health team to support prevention of mental health difficulties for children and young people;

- health visitors supporting new mothers and liaising with the perinatal service and early help services;

- an early help service in York, which works with parents, offering parenting support, mental health awareness advice and signposting and working with statutory and voluntary agencies;

- a school wellbeing service, which provides mental health workers in all schools in the city, including special schools and the pupil referral unit, to develop capacity in schools to promote positive mental wellbeing and identify pupils with difficulties early.

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