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NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues

Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to support children and young people in secure settings as part of a wider government strategy to address their complex psychological needs.
Practitioners are able to support more young people than just those deemed to be most at risk and most likely to respond to treatment. Picture: Becky Nixon/posed by model
Practitioners are able to support more young people than just those deemed to be most at risk and most likely to respond to treatment. Picture: Becky Nixon/posed by model

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Secure Stairs forms part of specialised health and justice work commissioned through NHS England’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health launched in 2016 to improve mental healthcare provision across the UK.

With funding jointly awarded by the NHS, the Department for Education and the Ministry of Justice, this integrated care framework focuses on young people being accommodated in England’s secure children’s homes (SCHs), secure training centres (STCs) and young offender institutions (YOIs).

It recognises the unique needs of these young people many of whom will have experienced trauma or severe neglect and might not have previously accessed support to address their unmet needs.

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