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Written Question

Young Offenders: Mental Health Services

Monday 8th January 2024

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to improve the provision of mental health care across the youth secure estate.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

NHS England has statutory responsibility for the direct commissioning of health services or facilities in the secure estate for children and young people, including for mental health services

Within this estate, the Framework for Integrated Care (SECURE STAIRS) allows for a trauma informed, collaborative approach to care, assessment and the planning of sentences and interventions, regardless of previous diagnosis. This includes input from mental health staff as well as from social care professionals, education professionals and the operational staff working on a day-to-day basis at the setting. 

It also seeks to ensure that staff have the right skills and support to care for the children and young people appropriately. NHS England has continued to support the implementation and sustainability of the framework in the estate, in partnership with Youth Custody Service and the Department for Education.

As well as this, intercollegiate healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings were first published in 2013. These standards were developed to help improve the quality and consistency of healthcare available to children in secure settings and have been refreshed in 2023. The standards benchmark NHS England’s core outcome based service specifications, including a specific specification for mental health services, which was also refreshed in 2023.

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Deposited Papers

Jul. 07 2008

Source Page: Making every young person with diabetes matter. Report of the Children and Young People with Diabetes Working Group. 76 p.
Document: DEP2008-1820.pdf (PDF)

Found: Report of the Children and Young People with Diabetes Working Group. 76 p.

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Select Committee

Action for Children

CSC0051 - Children’s social care

Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024

Inquiry: Children’s social care
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: CSC0051 - Children’s social care Action for Children Written Evidence

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Select Committee

Francesca Segal, and Nadia Leake

Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: My children spent the next 56 days in NICU and special care.

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Deposited Papers
Home Office

Nov. 02 2009

Source Page: The vetting and barring scheme: guidance, Oct 2009. 25 p.
Document: DEP2009-2681.pdf (PDF)

Found: in care children™s hospitals children™s detention centres children™s centres adult care homes,

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Select Committee

Innovate Services

CSC0063 - Children’s social care

Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024

Inquiry: Children’s social care
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: CSC0063 - Children’s social care Innovate Services Written Evidence

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