Covid has cost our children dearly. The increased prevalence of mental health problems and rising demand for services may be temporary, but we all know that prior to Covid we needed greater resourcing from prevention through to complex case management in the NHS, education and social care. Now is the time for investment, for co-production, joint planning, and above all transparency to tackle inequity.
In 2015, Future in Mind set out a consensus built on the experience of austerity and cuts. It committed to joint agency cooperation, prevention, early intervention, evidence based, outcome-informed delivery with the authentic participation of young services users and those who care for them. Across England, each local system worked with children and young people and families to agree and publish how this vision would be delivered. Up to the pandemic, CYPMH Local Transformation Plans were refreshed and republished annually, involving local populations, setting out the contribution by all partners to improved outcomes with action plans and timelines.
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