Research that found just one in three young people treated under the Children and Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme seems shocking at face value, but to suggest the initiative has failed is far from accurate (see below).
This is the first time we have had data for community-based children and young people's mental health services to consider and, as such, the figures may not tell the whole story. What should we make of the apparently low recovery rate reported by Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC)?
As the report makes clear, even with better data quality, we should not expect recovery rates from services for children to be even close to 100 per cent.
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